Twitter launches TV app so you can watch football on Twitter on your TV
Twitter and television have had a love affair for quite some time now—an affair made extra steamy by intentional live-tweeting campaigns, like ABC’s promoting its TGIT lineup. Now, the love affair is getting a lot more real, with Twitter quite literally coming to your television just in time for a different kind of TGIT. According to The Wrap, Twitter is launching an app for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Xbox One on Wednesday, which is—probably not by coincidence—one day before the first Thursday Night Football game will air on Twitter’s streaming service Periscope. So instead of having to watch on a phone or laptop, viewers tuning in for the New York Jets vs. Buffalo Bills game will be able to download the Twitter app onto their television (provided they have one of the three compatible devices) and watch there. Twitter is becoming television. It’s all happening. And you don’t even need a Twitter account to stream the games via the app.