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07-11-2016, 05:52 PM
Twitter is going to live stream the Republican and Democratic conventions
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Twitter's push into live video of major events continued on Monday with the an**uncement that it would stream the upcoming Democratic and Republican national conventions.
CBS, which owned the streaming rights, agreed to a deal that will let Twitter stream the conventions online, according to Recode (http://www.recode.net/2016/7/11/12147204/twitter-livestream-democratic-republican-national-conventions-cbs) and CNN Money (http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/11/media/twitter-cbs-news-live-streaming/index.html?sr=twCNN071116twitter-cbs-news-live-streaming0140PMVODtopLink&linkId=26430194).*
Twitter has been making a concerted effort to embrace live events on its platform, with its recent coverage of the Wimbledon tennis tournament (http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/twitter-live-wimbledon/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) providing an early look at how the company might combine streaming video with tweets.
Twitter's biggest live events are yet to come, with its 10-game package of NFL Thursday night games streaming in the fall.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/11/twitter-streaming-conventions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Twitter's push into live video of major events continued on Monday with the an**uncement that it would stream the upcoming Democratic and Republican national conventions.
CBS, which owned the streaming rights, agreed to a deal that will let Twitter stream the conventions online, according to Recode (http://www.recode.net/2016/7/11/12147204/twitter-livestream-democratic-republican-national-conventions-cbs) and CNN Money (http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/11/media/twitter-cbs-news-live-streaming/index.html?sr=twCNN071116twitter-cbs-news-live-streaming0140PMVODtopLink&linkId=26430194).*
Twitter has been making a concerted effort to embrace live events on its platform, with its recent coverage of the Wimbledon tennis tournament (http://mashable.com/2016/07/06/twitter-live-wimbledon/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) providing an early look at how the company might combine streaming video with tweets.
Twitter's biggest live events are yet to come, with its 10-game package of NFL Thursday night games streaming in the fall.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/11/twitter-streaming-conventions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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