It's just commentary now (with a link to an ESPN page that doesn't work in the US), but I think this is a good sign of what we'll see when the NFL streams start this fall. And that's awesome.
@film_girl Agreed. This could also work for sports with fledgling fan bases in various countries, like cricket. Seeing pros and commentators explain what's happening and why without interrupting the viewing experience for informed fans.
Thats pretty cool. Last time a big player released something like this it was a full disaster, laggy, slow, low quality, "pay"-wall by default. I think Twitter just won this fight.
@passy Looking great! Any way you guys can add the time of the event? It's impossible to tell what time the match is set to begin vs. watching all the pre-game action. Could be cool to be able to opt-in to get an alert a few minutes before :)
@shapob That's a great suggestion, thanks! I'll bring that up with the team.
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@shapob@passy It would be a blessing to have a notification to opt-in to watch a live event when it begins. I find it frustrating that most sports websites do not have the schedule adjusted to the time-zone of the visitor and overlook such simple engagement hacks.
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🎾🎾🎾 anyone?
It's a nice first serve and volley to Facebook Live and a big match for Twitter, but I would not say that providing a livestream with an accompanying Twitter feed is exactly groundbreaking. 💤💤💤 We did this for All-England/Wimbledon, The Masters, Ryder Cup and others in 1999 and 2000 at FasTV and the entire match was searchable post-broadcast as archive.
Sixteen years later and where's the innovation here? I realize Twitter and Facebook are constrained by limitations of its UX/UI, but as viewers/users, we deserve better. This is just like TV except smaller. Gee, that reminds me, I need to turn on my television to watch "real-time" live tennis as opposed to latency of this.
This is a great deal for All England Lawn & Tennis Club (reach + 💷), a decent deal for Twitter (content & maybe 💰), but what's in it for us?
@craigstanford Agree. Covering events and places that you can already watch on TV ( or some other commercial platform) does not offer big value proposition for users but works great($) for Twitter.That is reason we started StreamLi, to allow everyone to see what THEY want to see:Personalized viewing experience that can fulfill their specific needs when it comes to live streaming content.
This is pretty cool! I was taking the kids out last week and was following EURO 2016 on my phone through Facebook, which was pretty cool. Text only, but had that social aspect of gathering everything from friends and news outlets. After just text I came to appreciate radio coverage of sporting events :).
Now this with live video is pretty amazing. Would love to see options that filter out the "noise" and only show what is interesting to me next to the stream!
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