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Twitter launches video streaming apps, but content won’t come with it here

SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter is offering new live streaming video apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Microsoft's Xbox One users as it continues its foray beyond microblogging.The company said Wednesday that the free apps will feature all of its available live streaming video (such as NFL Thursday Night Football games and content from MLB Advanced Media and the NBA) plus curated content from Vines and Periscopes. Twitter's Apple TV app will offer side-by-side screens for live video as well as Tweeted video clips.Anyone with these devices, regardless of whether they have a Twitter account or a pay TV...