Twitter Live - Twitter replaces TV. Watch live events and tweet w/ friend.

Biggest move by Twitter in a lonnng while. They just need to stream the actual game, and less commentary. The fact that you can tweet with related people in real time, rather than commenting with your fb friends (on fb live) makes all the difference imo.

Nice move from Twitter, people are already twitting about live events, it's now just easier to follow a game & tweet. Too bad, there is no live video for UEFA Euro 2016

It's kind of like Twitch, except with a clearly more mainstream angle. This is a good move on Twitter's part, and plays up one of the most appealing parts of its service to mainstream users. Secretly, I hope it gets investors off their backs so they'll leave power users alone.

Interesting! Agree that it's not the most compelling thing, watching commentators... but I don't think this is meant to be the final product. "The company emphasized, however, that it's using the world's most popular tennis tournament as a trial run. 'This livestream is an extremely early and incomplete test experience, and we'll be making lots of improvements before we launch it in its final form,' the company said..." https://www.engadget.com/2016/07... Also, at least they show the players and crowd and court a bit, in between games? Not great, but better than 100% on the commentators.

This is a huge step forward for twitter. It will open tons of new business possibilities for them. After Twitter ditched Meerkat and moved to Periscope’s live stream solution, they kind of looked like they have no idea what they want from the live stream industry. It looks like they finally made something great. I hope they will know how to leverage such a huge product.

I guess this is only an early test. But in this case I really wouldn't want to sit there watching commentators talking, when you can get live full coverage through iPlayer anyway.

I'd love to be able to filter this Twitter stream by: tweets coming from Wimbledon (or even that court), tweets from verified accounts, top tweets (within a certain time period) and tweets from a particular "side" (when the NFL deal comes out, hopefully #steelers and #colts, for example). Super happy to see this from Twitter -- hope to see this more ubiquitously across all screens, including TV itself.

I would love to see this in the Euro Cup final on Sunday

Agree, that's a great move for Twitter. I can't wait to 5G come up and makes live products even better ☺.

I can't wait to see YouTube's take on 'live'... any guesses?