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Twitter scores bid for NFL Thursday night games
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Apr 5, 2016
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Twitter scores bid for NFL Thursday night games
This fall, NFL Thursday night games will have a new home on Twitter. The NFL made the announcement today that the social media company won out in a bidding war against other big names tech companies like Yahoo and Amazon.
Exactly ten years ago, the creation of Twitter meant Trump and anyone with Internet access could share their thoughts - limited to 140 characters - with the world.
Twitter beat out other top tech company including Amazon and Yahoo to win the NFL's Thursday night game live stream.
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This fall, NFL Thursday night games will have a new home on Twitter. The NFL made the announcement today that the social media company won out in a bidding war against other big names tech companies like Yahoo and Amazon.

This fall, the NFL Thursday night games will have a new home— Twitter.

NFL commissioner Roger Godell made the announcement today— on Twitter, of course—  that the social media company won out in a bidding war against other big names in tech including Verizon, Facebook, Amazon, and Yahoo. 

Twitter will stream 10 NFL games in their entirety on their site for free to both registered and unregistered users.

Under pressure from investors to bolster member growth, the move is seen as an attempt to reach out to younger fans who don’t have televisions. 

For more on the details of the deal and what this means for the two companies, Take Two's A Martinez spoke to  Peter Kafka, senior editor at Re/code covering media and technology.