{"id":340103,"date":"2017-05-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/04\/roku-twitter-livestream-channel\/21|22069377"},"modified":"2017-05-05T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:00:00","slug":"rokus-twitter-channel-brings-livestreams-to-your-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/rokus-twitter-channel-brings-livestreams-to-your-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Roku&#8217;s Twitter channel brings livestreams to your living room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, this means Roku owners now have the option to watch live coverage of sports, news, politics and more from their sofa and on the biggest screen in their house. Twitter&#8217;s live video partners include <em>Bloomberg,<\/em> <em>BuzzFeed,<\/em> NBA, MLB, Live Nation and many more so there&#8217;s a range of stuff to choose from. And that includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/01\/twitters-own-24-hour-news-channel-will-be-made-by-bloomberg\/\">an upcoming 24-hour news option<\/a>. In addition to streaming the live content, the Roku channel will also feature a Twitter timeline to keep you up to speed on the conversation surrounding whatever you&#8217;re watching.<\/p>\n<p>While the new channel will certainly come in handy, Roku is somewhat late to bring a dedicated option to its range of hardware. Apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Xbox One added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/09\/14\/twitter-video-apple-tv-xbone-fire-tv\/\">live Twitter streams to those devices<\/a> back in September while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/11\/16\/twitters-live-video-app-comes-to-android-tv\/\">Android TV<\/a> tacked on the social network&#8217;s content in November.<\/p>\n<p>Live Twitter video on Roku is available to all owners of a current-gen streaming device today via the Roku Channel Store. What&#8217;s more, you don&#8217;t need a Twitter account to watch, so anyone with the proper gear can tune in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/eaf32b2511d0637f3cb095926818dbf2\/205233576\/roku-twitter-streaming.jpg\" \/>Twitter just announced a slew of new live content earlier this week and now Roku is giving its users a way to watch it all in their living room. The set-top box company revealed today a dedicated channel for all of Twitter&#039;s live video on its range o&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-340103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}