Twitter’s TV strategy: timelines, Periscope and troll-taming talent

Users of the social networking service are watching 370 years of video a day, while talkshow hosts seem to be getting the bug for live-tweeting

"I had a moment when I was talking about quantum television," said Dan Biddle, Twitter UK's director of broadcast media partnerships, as he perched in a meeting room shortly after his company's keynote at the Mipcom conference in Cannes.

"It was this sense of where TV used to be seen as a wave where you just sit and it crashes over you for an hour and you're consumed, now there's a sense that it's actually made up of particles, like light.