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Twitter Breathes More Life And Context Into Search, Discover And Apps With Media First, Headlines And More

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http://techcrunch.com – As Twitter tries to surface more content from its network, it continues to beef up tweets and its Discover section of the site. Today, the company announced a few new features to make sure that you know the context behind a story so that you can figure out why it’s being shown to you within another big feature, Search. Context has been the missing piece to Twitter all along and the company is trying to change that. This is of course the next evolution of its “Twitter Cards” initiative that now brings over 2,000 ways to interact with tweets. Here’s what’s new on th (IT news)

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