And when scrolling down the News Feed, at least four of those items remain dynamically present in the right-hand column.

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On the local news stations, anchors literally held their phones in their hand, scrolling through tweets as they ad-libbed their way through their newscasts.

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If you don't touch the screen, your news feed, called the Cover Feed, starts to display, automatically scrolling from one post to the next.

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