Non-IT News Thread
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Garry Shandling just died of a heart attack at 66.
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What appears to be a suicide bomber has just killed more than twenty in an explosion in Lahore.
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Death toll has risen to over fifty!
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@mlnews said:
Storm Katie is pounding English with wind speeds up to 105mph!
Katie is pounding English??? What language does she endorse????
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Iceland's PM is the first casualty of the Panama Papers!!
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Twitter just got the rights to broadcast all NFL Thursday games.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/35970379
So I couldn't care less about the NFL, but what I am wondering is... how is Twitter going to monetize this? I mean, now that I know Twitter shows stuff... I still have no idea how I would go about watching or finding anything! As an interested possible Twitter viewer, as a long term Twitter user, I don't have the first clue how to use their service to consume this content that they are spending a fortune to get the rights to.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Twitter just got the rights to broadcast all NFL Thursday games.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/35970379
So I couldn't care less about the NFL, but what I am wondering is... how is Twitter going to monetize this? I mean, now that I know Twitter shows stuff... I still have no idea how I would go about watching or finding anything! As an interested possible Twitter viewer, as a long term Twitter user, I don't have the first clue how to use their service to consume this content that they are spending a fortune to get the rights to.
Twitter owns Periscope... I imagine they will use the Periscope platform to broadcast it.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Twitter just got the rights to broadcast all NFL Thursday games.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/35970379
So I couldn't care less about the NFL, but what I am wondering is... how is Twitter going to monetize this? I mean, now that I know Twitter shows stuff... I still have no idea how I would go about watching or finding anything! As an interested possible Twitter viewer, as a long term Twitter user, I don't have the first clue how to use their service to consume this content that they are spending a fortune to get the rights to.
Twitter owns Periscope... I imagine they will use the Periscope platform to broadcast it.
Maybe they will recoup what they spent on Periscope!
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Twitter just got the rights to broadcast all NFL Thursday games.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/35970379
So I couldn't care less about the NFL, but what I am wondering is... how is Twitter going to monetize this? I mean, now that I know Twitter shows stuff... I still have no idea how I would go about watching or finding anything! As an interested possible Twitter viewer, as a long term Twitter user, I don't have the first clue how to use their service to consume this content that they are spending a fortune to get the rights to.
Twitter owns Periscope... I imagine they will use the Periscope platform to broadcast it.
Ah, I've never seen that work and forget that they are related.
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And the FBI wanted a backdoor into every iphone...
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Rumour is that 500 migrants trying to reach Italy went down and perished at sea tonight coming from Libya.
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Houston is under a state of emergency from flooding. One part of the city has broken its all time high water mark by at additional forty feet!!
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Houston is under a state of emergency from flooding. One part of the city has broken its all time high water mark by at additional forty feet!!
Wowzers! That's a huge amount of water!
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@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Houston is under a state of emergency from flooding. One part of the city has broken its all time high water mark by at additional forty feet!!
Wowzers! That's a huge amount of water!
it's an historical flood.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Houston is under a state of emergency from flooding. One part of the city has broken its all time high water mark by at additional forty feet!!
I'm a bit surprised there is more than 40 ft of relief inside Houston.
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Major volcanic eruption in Mexico...
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Major volcanic eruption in Mexico...
I guess I will not be reading anymore Telegraph articles.

 
