This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Industry Insider" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Touchdown Twitter! The social media company beat out Facebook, Amazon, Verizon, and Yahoo in a bid to secure 10 of the NFL's Thursday Night Football games in the 2016-17 season, the league announced Tuesday. The deal lets Twitter stream the games worldwide without the need to sign in to or register for the site. This is an enormous deal for Twitter because it helps secure the platform as the go-to place for live experiences, which progresses the mission of CEO Jack Dorsey. Twitter could use the NFL streams to bring in new traffic to its platform,...
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