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'This gave us a way to allow users to curate themselves,' says McCue.įlipboard users now 'flip' news stories, tweets, photos and the like into either 'magazines' they curate, or add to others, and comment freely, thus adding another way to communicate in the social media age.Įxample: This reporter's ' magazine' of photos, tweets, USA TODAY articles, podcasts, guitar playing and more, McCue's kayaking, a Vox publication devoted to articles about the smartphone app TikTok or a fan magazine about jazz guitarist Pat Metheny.Īs for profits, McCue has been saying for several years that the company would eventually be profitable, and now he has a date. Users grab content from all over the web, like a social media feed, and place them in their personal magazine, either devoted to their posts, or whatever they find on the web, and share them on the Web. Under each story, you’ll see options to share, save, and like the story. Swipe up, and you’ll flip to the next news piece. The app is divided into 5 tabs: The home tab will give the news you’re looking for. But in the ensuing years, the company worried about whether Twitter's platform would remain in place to third parties like Flipboard, and so switched to a user-generated concept it calls 'magazines.' Flipboard is another popular news source to stay updated on what’s going on. Flipboard was initially built on the Twitter platform, transforming tweets into a visual magazine-like format based on the personal interests of the user.

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