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Comcast wants international partners, too, for new Twitter-driven TV platform SEEiT

PHILADELPHIA - Comcast Corporation said Wednesday it plans to add new partners to SEEiT, the cableco’s platform that connects conversations on Twitter and promotion around content to the actual viewership of TV shows, movies and sports.These partnerships (ABC Entertainment Group, A+E Networks Group, AMC Networks Inc., Cablevision’s Optimum TV, Charter Communications, Crown Media Family Networks, Discovery Communications, Fox Networks Group and Time Warner Cable are expected to join in 2014) will extend the SEEiT experience to reach millions of new viewers of popular shows on these channels and users of these networks.SEEiT lets people tune into or record their favorite...