How NBC’s revived @BreakingNews Twitter account has done so far

After announcing the return of its @BreakingNews Twitter handle, NBC News has begun leveraging the account to post limited breaking news stories from a variety of sources and using a mix of approaches.

In some cases, the account simply “quotes” a news outlets’ tweet with an added comment — and, in some cases, links to news stories.

NBC News resurrects @BreakingNews Twitter account

This approach has also been used with a tweet from NBC correspondent Joe Fryer. 

Another approach is to post a brief headline of a story along with a small handful of links to stories from different sources, with a short link and source news organization tagged on separate, double spaced lines. 

So far, the account appears to be slightly favoring NBC-owned properties, including CNBC and category specific Twitter accounts, though it has also linked to Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, among other outlets. 

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The account also appears to be honoring its stated goal of limiting its posts to cover only major breaking news stories — since the account’s reactivated was announced Thursday, March 29, there’s only been about a dozen tweets posted as of midday Monday, April 2, 2018.