NFL Tweets to the World

In a sign of the times, the National Football League (NFL) is going high tech to reach more viewers. Thursday night NFL games are now broadcast live on Twitter. Yes, Twitter, the social media phenomenon that limits your text to 140 characters, will now bring us entire football games.

Twitter bid for and received the rights to the weeknight NFL games. It was a bold, and certainly expensive move to bolster Twitter's changing platform. The social media outlet made its name from short bursts of text, called "Tweets". It was the immediacy of the platform that rapidly developed a following throughout the world.

People gathered certain social status based on how many people followed them. Breaking news, especially wars and riots, were often first recorded on Twitter and became essential in the news gatherer's arsenal.

In an effort to expand, Twitter introduced Periscope, an app that allows worldwide video broadcasting, as used by Pugwash Baptist Church to broadcast its Sunday Services. The addition of football broadcasts is surprising and daring.

You can tune in tomorrow night and every Thursday night NFL game on your phone or tablet. Twitter also offers an app that works on Apple TV, allowing you to watch on a connected big screen.

Tune in tomorrow night for the Houston Oilers at New England to face the Patriots. Game time is 9:25 PM.