Facebook Introduces Facebook Sports Stadium
Facebook is launching the Facebook Sports Stadium, a dedicated place for sport fans to experience sports in real-time with their friends and the world. With 650 million sports fans, Facebook is the world’s largest stadium, and people wants to take advantage of it, by offering fans more ways to ineract with each other.
With Facebook Sports, all the content on Facebook related to the game is in one place, and it comes in real time and appears chronologically. You can see:
- Posts from your friends, and their comments on plays
- Posts and commentary from experts, like teams, leagues and journalists, with easy access to their Pages
- Live scores, stats and a play-by-play
- Game info, like where to find the game on TV
You can follow the action as the game unfolds with a live play-by-play, and even like, comment on, and share individual plays. You can also get up to speed quickly with live scores and the most discussed plays.
You can get to Facebook Sports by searching for the game, and Facebook will surface new ways to get there as the product evolves.
Facebook is rolling this out today for American football games and will support other sports around the world like basketball, soccer, and more soon. The experience is available now on iPhone in the US, and will expand to other platforms in the coming weeks.