The FB newswire

Facebook has launched a new feature “FB Newswire” that is a great deal of help for journalists as well as newsrooms looking for breaking stories. Facebook Inc. has long been used by the journalists as a platform for publishing and sharing content. But, now it is thinking of expanding itself as a news source too. FB Newswire was launched by Facebook on Thursday. It hopes that FB Newswire will prove to be a good real – time resource. How it work? All the news – worthy content is collected from organizations and notable people and is embedded into news media in an easy to read and share format.

The news content will consist of the status updates, original videos and photos and will be posted on twitter account also apart from the FB Newswire Facebook page. It sounds ironic doesn’t it? Facebook is using rival twitter Inc. for publishing its content. Journalists have been using twitter for a long time as a newswire. Facebook seems to be putting all its effort into its newswire for challenging twitter though it admits that twitter is a better platform for publishing breaking news.  Around one billion people around the globe use FB everyday for exploring and participating in various news- making events. The feature is powered by Storyful – famous for its social content discovery and newsrooms verification. You can access FB Newswire on twitter at @FBNewswire and the facebook page is Facebook.com/FBNewswire.