Despite its name, a constant feed may occasionally veer away to other games for brief updates, but coverage generally remains with the initial game.

Twitter lets users subscribe to receive brief updates or "tweets " (a maximum 140 characters) from others whom they choose to "follow."

Facebook lets users create their own sets of "friends" among whom they share brief updates, photos, links, or other information.

Facebook lets users follow people and organizations they "like" and with whom they share brief updates, photos, links or other information.

Finally, the program returns to the various locations for brief updates.

State media carried brief updates of results and passed no comment on either the referendum or the Kuomintang victory.

The two largest and most watched --Channel One and Rossiya - offered brief updates, but continued with their regular afternoon programming.

There are brief updates of news, local news, sports, weather and traffic every twenty minutes, with longer news updates every hour.

Each episode features two in-depth reports on how the news is handled by the world's media along with brief updates on the latest events in the world of journalism.

The notion of sending and getting brief updates to and from dozens or thousands of people every few minutes is an image from information hell.