FOMO sufferers, listen up: Twitter understands your anxiety and just rolled out a new feature that might help.
Twitter Moments aims to deliver "the best of what's happening on Twitter in an instant," Product Manager Madhu Muthukumar explained in a blog post. Think of this as a Twitter highlight reel showing the most popular stories unfolding across the microblogging service at that very moment. Best of all, you don't need to follow any specific accounts to get this info.
If you visited Twitter on the Web this morning, you may have already noticed the Moments tab, as it now occupies a prime piece of real estate on the site — along the top column, in between your notifications and messages. On your phone, meanwhile, you'll see the Moments lightning bolt along the bottom column.
On Tuesday morning, the Moments tab was highlighting stories about the South Carolina floods, the Seattle Seahawks' victory last night over the Detroit Lions, the Physics Nobel Prize award, the search for El Faro survivors, and more. Twitter said it will update the list throughout each day as new stories emerge.
If a specific Moment looks interesting, just click on it to find out more. You'll also have the option to follow specific Moments. Doing so will blend tweets about that topic directly into your timeline so you can keep track of the latest updates in real time without having to switch back and forth between tabs. When the story ends, your timeline will go back to the way it was before.
"Today, most moments are assembled by our curation team, and some are contributed by partners like Bleacher Report, Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, Fox News, Getty Images, Mashable, MLB, NASA, New York Times, Vogue, and the Washington Post," Muthukumar wrote. "While we're working with a small group of partners now, we plan to expand it in the future."
The feature, which we first heard about in June, is initially available to those in the U.S. across Android, iPhone, and the desktop Web.
"We're hard at work to bring this same functionality to more places in the coming weeks and months," Muthukumar wrote.