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Twitter offers a new way to watch the presidential debates


Worried about straining your eyes watching the presidential and vice presidential debates on TV and keeping an eye on your Twitter feed? A new partnership between Twitter and Bloomberg Television may change that.

Twitter will stream Bloomberg TV’s debate coverage for the debates — the first one will take place Monday Sept. 26 at Hofstra University in New York — on a webpage that will also have a steady feed of debate related tweets.

Anyone will be able to tweet the link and it will play in both the Twitter timeline and on its own separate page.

The debate coverage will also be bookended by Bloomberg Politics coverage for 30 minutes before and after for analysis and reporting.

"Twitter is where the 2016 presidential election is happening every single day," Anthony Noto, Twitter's chief financial officer said in a statement. "Livestreaming the debates with Bloomberg combined with the live commentary and conversation on Twitter will create a one-screen experience at the center of the action unlike any other.”

Twitter did a similar partnership with CBS News during the political conventions this summer.