{"id":182898,"date":"2016-10-14T07:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T05:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=182898"},"modified":"2016-10-14T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T06:00:48","slug":"twitter-will-live-stream-the-melbourne-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/182898-twitter-will-live-stream-the-melbourne-cup.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter will live stream the Melbourne Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2016\/announcing-the-melbournecup-live-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter has partnered<\/strong><\/a> with the Victoria Racing Club to stream the 2016 Emirates Melbourne Cup to a global audience.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first Twitter live streaming deal the social network has announced outside of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter is where the world of sport is happening every single day, and Australian sporting events don\u2019t come more iconic than the Emirates Melbourne Cup,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLive streaming the race to our logged-in and logged-out audience on Twitter and connected devices, combined with the live commentary and conversation on Twitter, will create a one-screen experience at the centre of the action unlike any other.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2016\/announcing-the-melbournecup-live-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Mugabe roasted on Twitter over wearing two watches in picture<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has partnered with the Victoria Racing Club to stream the 2016 Emirates Melbourne Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,405],"class_list":["post-182898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182912,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182898\/revisions\/182912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}