Twitter comes to TV, and free live streaming sports may follow

Twitter is bringing its service to Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Xbox One. While you'd think mobile devices would be better-suited for displaying the day's tweets, Vines, and Periscopes, the real appeal of Twitter's new app is free, live sports streaming to your TV.

Launching today, Twitter's TV app plans to stream entire games from NFL Thursday Night Football, as well as content from MLB Advanced Media, Pac 12 Networks, Campus Insiders, Cheddar, Bloomberg News, and the NBA.

"These devices will bring Twitter's live streaming video experience to life on the TV screen," said Anthony Noto, chief financial officer of Twitter in an official release. "We're excited to introduce this new experience to people, without requiring a paywall or having to log in to Twitter."

Hut, Hut, Stream!

That said, there are a few gaps. While the Apple TV version of Twitter is out globally via the App Store, the Xbox One version will only be available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the UK, and the US, and the Amazon Fire TV version is down to just in the UK and US.

Twitter's desire to stream live sports was revealed all the way back in April, with this month's kickoff of the NFL Regular Season being the first real test for the social media platform as a sports venue.

While it'll still be a while before we find our 'Netflix for Sports,' Twitter live streaming the [insert your fav NFL team here] on the big screen without a cable subscription is certainly enough to get us excited.