After Instant Article, here's another project in Facebook home to break into news industry. According to some rumors from sites specializing in technology and the web, it seems that in the parts of Menlo Park they are working on the development of an independent app very similar to Twitter.
The project should lead to the selection of some partners (newspapers or even individual authors) who will produce the contents to be shared through the app. The user of the new news apps home Facebook he will choose the media to follow and, for every news coming from his preferences, or to put it to Twitter from his following, he will receive a 100-character notification plus a link that refers to the complete news.
It remains to be seen whether this could be the right move by Facebook to carry out the assault on the news sector where Twitter, at the moment, remains ahead. The other point on which it is important to dwell is that of the loading times of the news, a crucial issue both for social networks and for publishers.
Finally, we need to understand if the link linked to 100 characters of the news refers to an external site, exiting the app and considerably lengthening the loading times or go to open an internal window of the same application by reading the content within it.
