Magazine app Flipboard adds support for original content with new note-taking feature

Magazine reading app Flipboard has emerged as the latest contender in the battle to move some of the online conversations that take place on Twitter onto its own platform. The company announced today that Flipboard curators will be able to publish original content in the magazine to engage with readers. The company believes this feature will allow curators to create small communities around specific topics and interests. This would create a different vibe than posting on her Twitter for a more general audience.

This Social His Magazine His app was his first in 2012 to allow users to find articles, create their own magazines, and "flip" them into magazines for other users to follow in their feeds. introduced. With the introduction of the new Notes feature, curators can now not only share articles and other information, but also post text notes with uploaded images and links, and reach out to external @mention users. rice field. their own community.

Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue said: "So it's like contributing to a micro-community...and having people who care about something, following this magazine, or contributing to this magazine talking and communicating with each other. , allows us to build a stronger sense of community,” he says.

Notes stand out with a colorful blue background and can be liked, commented, shared or flipped to other journals.

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