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Twitter launches app streams on consoles, set top boxes

Twitter for Apple TV is available globally via the App Store for Apple TV (4th generation).

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What we still don’t know – and probably won’t know for some time – is whether these streams will generate any new users for Twitter.

However, there were drawbacks to the feed, with Twitter itself, rather than the user, selecting the timeline you could view during the game, meaning there were a lot of nonsense tweets about how good the stream was rather than discussing the game. Canada is one of the few countries without access to the games because of a separate broadcast agreement. And the game was easily found inside the Twitter app’s Moments tab.

The new service will be in partnership with the live and on demand video news network Cheddar.

Washington University director of the sports business program Patrick Rishe joined this morning’s “Squawk Box” to discuss the implications of both Twitter’s first National Football League livestream, and the impact of North Carolina’s HB2 law. “Twitter has always been a great complement to TV, and now fans can enjoy even more premium video with lie Tweets – and the best content on Twitter – right on their TVs”, said Anthony Noto, Twitter’s chief financial officer, in a statement. The next four games will use CBS’ coverage, while the last five will feature NBC’s Thursday Night Football broadcast team.

When it comes to social media and technology it is a known fact this is continuously evolving and being updated to make it more efficient for its users. I will say that I thought Twitter’s stream wasn’t as clear as that of the NFL Network or CBS broadcasts, but it wasn’t like the game was blurry or pixelated, either. Football fans said they appreciated the stream and were asking for more opportunities to watch games that way-something Twitter has been working on with deals in other sports.

Probably not, no. Thursday Night Football games have historically been the worst games of the season.

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Twitter released apps for Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Xbox One, with the apps created to broadcast Twitter’s live streaming video, Periscope streams, Vine posts and regular tweets, according to Marketing Land. We’re a media company.

Twitter to launch app on Apple TV, others to stream NFL