Friday night baseball on Twitter is back
While we're all ruminating over what NFL Thursday Night Football will look like on Amazon, former rights-holder Twitter announced it will be streaming baseball.
Starting this Friday, weekly live streams of MLB games will be available on Twitter. The first game is the World Series Champion Chicago Cubs against the Milwaukee Brewers.
The game is available for free to Twitter users and logged-out users who visit mlb.twitter.com. It's the same thing you can see on the TV broadcast, but this time, you can watch and tweet along all on one mobile device, if you so choose. The streams are available everywhere except select international territories, according to Twitter.
It's the same deal Twitter locked down last year.
To celebrate its victory of scoring MLB games, again, Twitter is hosting a #CapsOn event, where users are encouraged to share photos and videos of themselves wearing their favorite team's hat and tweet it with #CapsOn and #OpeningDay.
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Those two hashtags unlock special emoji. Each team also have unique emoji.
For tweet suggestions, just look at Twitter COO/CFO's tweet from Monday:
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As MarketingLand's Danny Sullivan suggested, let's stop thinking about NFL Thursday Night, it's baseball time:
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Kerry Flynn is a business reporter for Mashable covering the tech industry. She previously reported on social media companies, mobile apps and startups for International Business Times. She has also written for The Huffington Post, Forbes and Money magazine. Kerry studied environmental science and economics at Harvard College, where she led The Harvard Crimson's metro news and design teams and played mellophone in the Band. When not listening to startup pitches, she runs half-marathons, plays with puppies and pretends to like craft beer.
