The Facebook Sports Stadium delivers game-related content to fans in real time, by collecting relevant posts from friends and experts.
When it comes to the chatter that surrounds televised events—be it presidential debates, awards shows, or the Super Bowl—Twitter reigns supreme, in large part due to its fast-moving, reverse chronological timeline. Despite boasting a user base that is nearly five times as big, Facebook still lags behind Twitter on this front: The ranking of posts in Facebook’s news feed, determined largely by the company’s algorithm, does not allow users to easily track real-time updates.