Facebook's Notify: latest app is like Twitter – but for phone alerts
by Jana Kasperkevic in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#TA6P)
Company releases mobile software to unite news notifications and alerts, creating a single livestream on your phone's lock screen
If the main reason you keep news apps on your phone is their alerts, go ahead and delete them. On Wednesday, Facebook rolled out Notify, an app that is meant to consolidate all the news notifications and alerts on your phone into one livestream that lives on your phone's lock screen.
"Notify from Facebook sends you notifications from the sources you trust, whether you are a sports fan, a film buff, a news junkie or a little bit of everything," Facebook explained in a video introducing the new app. "Stay up to date on things you care about right on your lock screen."
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