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How "Screenshorts" Are Transforming News Consumption

  • BuzzFeed, Thursday, April 2, 2015 11:25 AM
Driven by social media users, “screenshorts” -- screenshots of text shared on social media -- are transforming the way consumers get their news. “The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Medium, and BuzzFeed have all built formal internal screenshort tools,” Buzzfeed reports. Explaining the screenshort’s appear, Buzzfeed writes: “It’s an intimate, user-instigated behavior that still feels organic, and it’s an extremely efficient way to share digestible chunks of text that get around Twitter’s character limits and Facebook’s truncation.”
 

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