The cricketing extravaganza is back – the Indian Premier League (IPL) Season 6, what would be better than getting real-time updates and interactive social experience on cricket directly on world’s popular social media Twitter. Twitter has partnered with Indian Premier League (IPL) to build exclusive applications and features that brings interactive experience to IPL Cricket, for the fans.
First of all Twitter has built a dedicated “Pepsi IPL 2013 Discover Page” (http://discover.twitter.com/IPL) that will help Cricket fans around the world to easily view/join the #PepsiIPL conversation, and to find, follow, and search for your favorite teams, cricketers, owners, personalities, celebrities and more. With just one click “Follow” for real-time updates, behind-the-scenes stories, exclusive photos, Vine videos, and more from the teams, players, and celebrities.
“Twitter brings you closer to the things you are passionate about – and for millions of fans worldwide, that’s cricket. We are pleased to see the IPL using Twitter to help fans users follow and connect with their favorite players, teams, and personalities,” said a Twitter spokesperson.
As always fans want’s get to know more inside news on IPL from their favorite cricketers and teams, for that Twitter has built Magic Mirror application which allow Cricketers and Celebrities to tweet out candid pictures with one click-through the @IPL account.
Twitter has also build some of the exclusive application and features on IPL official website (www.iplt20.com) that brings the whole social layer to the game. Some of the cool features includes –
Interestingly Twitter will directly integrate Tweet Counter and Team Hashtag Battle to television production, with the support of a real-time data stream, and will be flashed on the TV screen during the live telecast of the Pepsi IPL 2013 matches. In addition TV viewers will be invited and encouraged to tweet and vine on the Pepsi IPL 2013, and the best tweets of the day will be picked, to be read out by the commentators on air.
Image Credit – BCCI
This post was last modified on August 14, 2016 12:57 pm