Twitter & CBS News to Live Stream Political Conventions

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter and CBS News have struck up a partnership to stream CBSN’s live coverage from the Republican and Democratic National Conventions on Twitter.

The stream will be live on Twitter each day and will be enhanced with live, convention-related Tweets. CBS coverage included real-time metrics, curated Tweets and live questions Tweeted from voters and asked of the candidates.

“Twitter is the fastest way to find out what’s happening in politics and to have a discussion about it,” said Anthony Noto, Twitter’s CFO. “By bringing the live discussion of the Republican and Democratic national conventions together with CBSN’s live video stream of the proceedings, we believe we’re giving people around the world the best way to experience democracy in action.”

“CBS News will have the highest quality original reporting continuously throughout both conventions—we are very pleased that reporting will be so prominently featured on Twitter’s live platform,” added CBS News’s president, David Rhodes.