Twitter’s Moments feature will now insert Rio Olympics-related tweets into a user’s timeline for weeks now. Earlier the time duration used to be hours, or a few days. Twitter is also rolling out 207 team emojis which can be triggered by the three-letter country code hashtag.
Micro-blogging website Twitter announced a change to its Moments feature which will now insert Olympic-related tweets into a user’s timeline for weeks. Earlier, Moments used to insert tweets into a user’s timeline for a matter of hours or, at most, a few days. The feature can also be used to catch up on what you missed during the day with the feature, recap Moments which will highlight the results, medal counts and other notable newsworthy items, Techcrunch reports
The live Olympic Moments for select sports and events will be available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the UK and the US. In addition to Moments, Twitter is rolling out 207 team emojis that will activate when users tweet with the three-letter country code hashtag for their favorite team. There will also be over 50 Olympics and sports emoji that can be triggered by hashtags. The hashtags will be available in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. All the emojis and types of Moments will be available in the days ahead but the dedicated Moments section is available now, the report added.
Google is also bringing a new set of experiences to help people around the world enjoy the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Some of the unique features that will help users experience the best of these games are Google Search, which will help discover the event schedule, medal counts, results and trending athletes on search. On Google, when you search for Olympics or a similar query, an in-depth search result will be displayed at the top of the Search page or in your Google app, allowing you get information for a specific country, sport, event, or even by athlete.
Source: bgr.in
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