Twitter Brings Live Scorecard, Community for Cricket Fans in India

Twitter on Thursday launched a stay cricket scorecard and prolonged its Communities function to India by bringing the nation’s first neighborhood focussed on cricket followers known as Cricket Twitter – India. The updates from the microblogging platform come within the midst of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 event that kicked off earlier this week and can go on till November 14. Twitter claims that it’s already a identified place amongst Indian cricket lovers, with greater than 75 million conversations concerning the sport going down on the platform within the nation between July 1, 2020 and July 1, 2021.

The scorecard will seem on the Explore tab and stay Events Page on Twitter throughout cricket matches to let followers observe the scores from the match in actual time, whereas scrolling by way of tweets and following commentary on the platform. It might be out there to all customers in India on iOS and the Web and also will roll out to most customers on Android.

“In the coming weeks, we’ll find more ways to make it easier for users to find relevant match content and join conversations with likeminded people,” the corporate mentioned in a press notice.

Alongside the scorecard, Twitter has brought its first community outdoors of the US, and it has been devoted to Indian cricket followers. It is aimed to function a one-stop place to speak about all issues cricket in a number of Indian languages.

In September, Twitter began testing its Communities function within the US to let folks join with others on the platform to speak about the identical issues and pursuits they’ve. Communities on Twitter are began and managed by directors and moderators who implement Community guidelines that members will need to have to observe — alongside the overall Twitter Rules.

Twitter is at present testing communities as invite solely on iOS, Web, and Android cellular browser, with entry on the Android app and extra functionalities coming quickly. The invitations could be despatched by directors, moderators, and neighborhood members through direct messages.

Once invited, members can be a part of the neighborhood and begin speaking with different members by replying to their tweets. Community members also can begin their very own conversations by posting neighborhood tweets.

Just like public tweets, anybody can learn, quote, and report neighborhood tweets. People who will not be part of the neighborhood can, nonetheless, not take part within the dialog by replying to the tweets posted in a selected neighborhood.

Twitter has not but allowed all its customers to create communities on the platform. At the time of asserting the Communities function, the corporate mentioned that it could work carefully with neighborhood members.

Nevertheless, the newest announcement means that Twitter is contemplating India as a key marketplace for rising communities on its platform.