Twitter brings expanded news tweets to the web, makes skimming articles all too easy

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While [Twitter][3] has had expanded tweets for photos and videos, it's been necessary to click through to full news articles to see any of their content, sometimes even for the headline. A newly-launched update to the desktop and mobile web versions of Twitter is making that at-a-glance reading easier. Major traditional outlets like the _New York Times_, _Der Spiegel_ or _Time_ now show a brief snippet of an article when the linking tweet is given a click. More Internet-focused sources such as _BuzzFeed_ and _TMZ_ are also in the batch, and videos from the likes of BET and Dailymotion will play in-line. Android and iPhone users will see the same expansion from their native apps in the near future, although we're already weeping quietly for attention spans everywhere.

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