YouTube challenges Twitter with Breaking News feature
YouTube has launched a Breaking News carousel across its mobile app and homepage offerings. The carousel resembles the company's Recommended Channel section, a scroll-friendly carousel in the app between suggested video content. It is not yet known if the news segment is being populated through algorithms. The feature could be the first step towards YouTube becoming a contender as a breaking news platform, challenging Twitter's dominance.

YouTube has introduced a ‘Breaking News’ carousel to its mobile apps and homepage, a move that could indicate parent company Google wants to make it easier for users to source important content on a platform where 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute.

YouTube introduces ‘breaking news’ feed

The new section looks similar to a recommended channel on the web homepage, and as a scrollable carousel in the mobile app between suggested videos. It was first pointed out by Android Police.