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Twitter Stream For "TNF" Receives Generally Positive Reviews, But Some Kinks To Work Out
Twitter's debut NFL effort on Thursday night gives it a "solid foundation to build on," as the picture quality for the Jets-Bills stream "was excellent," according Richard Deitsch of SI.com. Watching the game on a Mac laptop and iPhone was "similar to HD television -- very sharp, great audio," and iPad users "really seemed to have a great experience." There were "some buffering issues at times but it's always tough to know whether that's on your end or an issue with Twitter." The Twitter broadcast was "about a play or two (maybe 40-45 seconds) behind the television coverage." Meanwhile, users "need to have an option to customize what tweets they want to see." Deitsch: "That should be an ASAP fix for Twitter's engineers" ( <a href="http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/09/16/twitter-thursday-night-football-livestream-jets-bills" target="_blank">SI.com, 9/16</a> ). RE/CODE's Kurt Wagner notes he was "surprised at how easy it was to jump into the game on a mobile phone." Wagner noted "one major positive for Twitter" was he did not "come across a single nasty tweet during the whole game." Wagner: "The feed was curated by both humans and an algorithm, so nasty tweets should have been weeded out, but Twitter can be a brutal place." Twitter did a "nice job of keeping it clean, especially after a less-than-stellar experience during its Wimbledon stream earlier this year." Wagner added the game "didn't feel very Twitter-y." Wagner: "I may as well have been watching on the CBS app or the NFL Network app" ( <a href="http://www.recode.net/2016/9/16/12937376/nfl-twitter-stream-review-jets-bills" target="_blank">RECODE.net, 9/16</a> ).
