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MSNBC Launches 'Breaking News' Facebook Page

Last November, MSNBC acquired the Twitter account @breakingnews, which now has 1.6 million followers. A month later, MSNBC announced that it had acquired BreakingNews.com, which has become a Web portal for the online newswire. The network has now managed to complete the trifecta: MSNBC has just launched a Facebook Page at Facebook.com/BreakingNews.

The new Facebook account will only send updates for the biggest stories to break. The page is still quite new (it only has 645 fans right now), but is expected to grow quickly.

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