Reddit
Plans to
Offer Embeds for
Breaking News Discussions
Reddit is planning to
Offer Embeds for
Breaking News threads, a move that could help
News organizations tap into instant live blogs of newsworthy events.
Erik Martin, general manager for Reddit, says the
Embeds will likely roll out this summer. They would let blogs and
News organizations repackage the live reporting feature that
Reddit introduced in beta last month
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"Unlike with self-post or comment based live updates, there's ** limit to how many updates can be posted during the course of an event," a
Reddit blog post
read. "Liveupdate streams exist outside of subreddits and are designed to be submitted like any other link to whatever (multiple) subreddits are relevant to the stream."
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