Twitter broadcast football games in the season

Ball football: Twitter, whose shares were little changed in the afternoon, transmit 10 games free

The National Football League, an organization that runs the football in the United States, said he had chosen Twitter as its sole global partner to broadcast their games on Thursday nights during the regular season in 2016.

Twitter, whose shares were little changed in the afternoon, transmit 10 games for free, said the NFL in a statement.

Twitter will give access to live video of games without authentication to more than 800 million registered users and unregistered through mobile devices, tablets, personal computers and smart TVs.

It was not immediately clear how the games would be transmitted. However, the chief executive of Twitter, Jack Dorsey said users would be able to watch the games "directly on Twitter."

The agreement also includes highlights during the games, as well as broadcasts before games made by players and teams in the Periscope, the service broadcasts live Twitter.


A Twitter spokesman declined to reveal the terms of the agreement. However, the technology website Re / code reported, citing people familiar with the bidding process, that Twitter had paid less than $ 10 million.