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What Twitter's streaming experiment means for the future of live TV

  • Written by Amanda Lotz, Professor of Communication Studies and Screen Arts & Cultures, University of Michigan
imageThe roll-out has been a bit clunky, but there's potential.'Bird' via www.shutterstock.com

Yet another way to watch television has emerged.

More than two million viewers watched some of the Thursday night NFL football game on Twitter each of the last three weeks, and several million more used it to watch the first presidential debate.

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