Bringing Tweets to TV
With the introduction of a social media-friendly remote control, Television is now being introduced to the Social Networking atmosphere, where now you are able to tweet, updated your Facebook status and blog all without accessing a mobile device or computer.
There have always been previous speculation about the mashup of Web and TV, however with social networking on the rise this seemed like a bold move to make, making television web interactive.
Yahoo TV WIigets have embraced this new Web/TV mashup, and offers a well-designed, fully featured client that lets you post tweets from your TV. This widget displays the most recent tweets or updates, whether it is from you or someone else. The updates are real-time, so there is no need to refresh or re-boot to get recent updates. While watching television you can be interacting through your social mediums about juicy bits of a favourite program.
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