Comcast and NBCUniversal have announced a new partnership today that they’ve made with Twitter. As a result of this partnership, Comcast Xfinity TV customers get a new feature called See It which allows them to tune into a TV shows from a tweet, an expanded tweet to be precise. Customers will be able to change the channel, play a show On Demand and even set the DVR all through the expanded tweet. Brian Roberts, Comcast’s CEO, says that this feature essentially creates “an instant online remote control.”
Twitter is without a doubt one of the most widely used online destinations for real time conversations, which may include thousands of tweets about a particular TV show. Its not unusual to see an influx of tweets when a TV show, a rather popular one, is airing. Seeing such tweets might tempt people to tune in and get in on the action. See It makes the process much more easier. The service will launch next month and will have access to a number of NBCUniversal channels such as CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Syfy, NBC Sports Network, NBC and more. Twitter says that it is working with Comcast to bring See It to other networks as well.
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The folks over at Twitter has just rolled out a rather significant update for its official app for Windows Phone, which would see the introduction of several new features, in addition to offering some minor tweaks. There has been an update made in the app’s Windows Store listing, allowing users to choose a dark theme, in addition to changing timelines so that it depicts a black background that will be in stark contrast to the regular, white background. Of course, one ought to be able to recall that the initial version of Twitter’s Windows Phone app did feature dark as well as light themes, but this feature was disposed off in a February redesign.
