It’s a big day for Twitter. Five months after signing a high-profile streaming deal with the NFL worth a reported $10 million, Twitter will finally put its technology to the test tonight with its first attempt at live streaming an NFL game. The social media giant will stream the New York Jets vs. Buffalo Bills Thursday Night Football game that kicks off at 5:25 p.m. PT. You can access the game on Twitter here, or more simply at tnf.twitter.com. The stream, worldwide, will also be available on Twitter’s mobile app within the Moments tab, as well as on the company’s… Read More
Just in time for the first NFL game to stream on Twitter Thursday, the social media company has introduced a new version of its app for streaming live video on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Microsoft’s Xbox One. Users can stream Thursday’s game between the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets even if they don’t have a Twitter account or any sort of cable package. Users can also view content from MLB Advanced Media, NBA, Pac 12 Networks, Campus Insiders, Cheddar and Bloomberg News as well as top tweets and vines from around the world. Twitter offered few details about its streaming package in a press release… Read More
Even in an age of 24-hour sports television and endless social media imagery, compelling professional sports photography still has the power to captivate an audience. Remember smiling Usain Bolt, the “defining image” of the Rio Olympics? We rely on the pros to get up close and inside the action of our favorite sports by using the most sophisticated cameras and lenses. So it was especially interesting this weekend to see that Sports Illustrated and ESPN photographers turned to Apple’s new iPhone 7 Plus to deliver images from an NFL game and the U.S. Open tennis tournament. S.I photographer David E. Klutho… Read More
The Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers kick off the NFL season tonight in a rematch of Super Bowl 50, and based on a Bing prediction that gives Carolina a 57 percent chance of winning, quarterback Cam Newton may actually stick around for the full post-game press conference. Microsoft’s search engine is back with weekly predictions for all the NFL games thanks to Bing Predicts, which uses “search, social, and other relevant data to make intelligent predictions about upcoming events.” Scanning the schedule shows a few lopsided predictions in the week one mix. The Seattle Seahawks are a 78 percent favorite… Read More
San Francisco 49ers fans already watch home games at one of the most high-tech stadiums in sports, so it’s only natural that they now have access to one of the speediest tech-enabled delivery services around. In an unlikely-but-intriguing partnership, the 49ers today announced that they have teamed up with Amazon to offer tailgaters one-hour Prime Now delivery for tens of thousands of items. Yes, that’s right: 49ers fans who tailgate before games outside of Levi’s Stadium this season can order food, drinks, and more from Amazon and have it delivered in one hour or less. Prime Now is Amazon’s speedy delivery service for Prime members… Read More
