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Apple’s iPhone event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time

Apple’s iPhone press event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time, TechCrunch has confirmed. This news backs up  an earlier report  from last month, which claimed Apple would expand the ability to watch the event to Twitter’s platform, instead of only through Safari and Apple TV or Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, as in the past. Many had been  speculating  the event would live stream on Twitter, due to the wording Apple is using in its latest Promoted Tweet about the event. The tweet asks users to sign up for “updates” on event day and follow the action on Twitter via the #AppleEvent hashtag. While Apple has  run Twitter ads before,  including to those that  remind users to tune in and watch , the tweet’s wording this time had hinted that the action may be live streamed on Twitter. Instead of saying “follow” the event on Twitter, the tweet says “… watch  the #AppleEvent live on Twitter.” (Emphasis ours). “Watch” implies a live stream, and the tweet itself featur