Twitter Will Stream 10 Thursday Night Football Games Next Season
By Carlton Wilcoxson • April 6, 2016
The NFL has a new livestreaming social media partner, Twitter. The social platform, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary, will stream live NFL games next season. The league had been looking for a digital-only partner like Amazon, Verizon or Facebook, which had made its interest known before backing out, to stream its Thursday Night Football games. Twitter will stream the 10 games airing on NBC and CBS, while the NFL Network will also simulcast the broadcast games, meaning that those games will have three different providers. Twitter will also provide pregame and postgame streams of the players and teams on Periscope. The NFL Network will carry the remaining eight TNF games.