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Big move by Twitter. It's now streaming Wimbledon live: Notice the new URL structure: twitter.com/i/live

Isn't this just a step up from radio though? RE: Wimbledon - You don't seem to be able to watch the match, just a video of the commentators haha. Also its a few minutes behind the live game - and with Twitter focusing on real-time, live events - it may need to get up to speed here. I like the idea though and the tweet stream next to it is cool.

It's just commentary now (with a link to an ESPN page that doesn't work in the US), but I think this is a good sign of what we'll see when the NFL streams start this fall. And that's awesome.

@passy Looking great! Any way you guys can add the time of the event? It's impossible to tell what time the match is set to begin vs. watching all the pre-game action. Could be cool to be able to opt-in to get an alert a few minutes before :)

🎾🎾🎾 anyone? It's a nice first serve and volley to Facebook Live and a big match for Twitter, but I would not say that providing a livestream with an accompanying Twitter feed is exactly groundbreaking. 💤💤💤 We did this for All-England/Wimbledon, The Masters, Ryder Cup and others in 1999 and 2000 at FasTV and the entire match was searchable post-broadcast as archive. Sixteen years later and where's the innovation here? I realize Twitter and Facebook are constrained by limitations of its UX/UI, but as viewers/users, we deserve better. This is just like TV except smaller. Gee, that reminds me, I need to turn on my television to watch "real-time" live tennis as opposed to latency of this. This is a great deal for All England Lawn & Tennis Club (reach + 💷), a decent deal for Twitter (content & maybe 💰), but what's in it for us?

Not working for me... (windows, latest stable chrome's build). Are there some kind of country's restrictions? Error says: "This media could not be played"

This is pretty cool! I was taking the kids out last week and was following EURO 2016 on my phone through Facebook, which was pretty cool. Text only, but had that social aspect of gathering everything from friends and news outlets. After just text I came to appreciate radio coverage of sporting events :). Now this with live video is pretty amazing. Would love to see options that filter out the "noise" and only show what is interesting to me next to the stream!

@rrhoover Wimbledon is a clever move, it's free to watch in the UK & brings tons of viewer volume. I wonder what they plan to do next...possibly fork up $$$ for Premier League rights to stream? Thoughts on next steps for Twitter on this?

Wow this is cool. Sort of like a dissected Periscope. They took the comments off the screen and made them scrollable!

I'd love to be able to filter this Twitter stream by: tweets coming from Wimbledon (or even that court), tweets from verified accounts, top tweets (within a certain time period) and tweets from a particular "side" (when the NFL deal comes out, hopefully #steelers and #colts, for example). Super happy to see this from Twitter -- hope to see this more ubiquitously across all screens, including TV itself.

It's kind of like Twitch, except with a clearly more mainstream angle. This is a good move on Twitter's part, and plays up one of the most appealing parts of its service to mainstream users. Secretly, I hope it gets investors off their backs so they'll leave power users alone.

Thats pretty cool. Last time a big player released something like this it was a full disaster, laggy, slow, low quality, "pay"-wall by default. I think Twitter just won this fight.

Agree, that's a great move for Twitter. I can't wait to 5G come up and makes live products even better ☺.

Interesting! Agree that it's not the most compelling thing, watching commentators... but I don't think this is meant to be the final product. "The company emphasized, however, that it's using the world's most popular tennis tournament as a trial run. 'This livestream is an extremely early and incomplete test experience, and we'll be making lots of improvements before we launch it in its final form,' the company said..." https://www.engadget.com/2016/07... Also, at least they show the players and crowd and court a bit, in between games? Not great, but better than 100% on the commentators.

Wow, the stream quality is flawless right now. When any user can do this on their own account, we'll see some exciting things.

This is what Twitter should exploit. Live events with video and feed. Get this on the Apple TV ASAP!

Biggest move by Twitter in a lonnng while. They just need to stream the actual game, and less commentary. The fact that you can tweet with related people in real time, rather than commenting with your fb friends (on fb live) makes all the difference imo.

Nice move from Twitter, people are already twitting about live events, it's now just easier to follow a game & tweet. Too bad, there is no live video for UEFA Euro 2016

Absolutely the right move !!! still way to go but so natural for the product that I wonder how come only now...

This is a huge step forward for twitter. It will open tons of new business possibilities for them. After Twitter ditched Meerkat and moved to Periscope’s live stream solution, they kind of looked like they have no idea what they want from the live stream industry. It looks like they finally made something great. I hope they will know how to leverage such a huge product.