Facebook Sports Stadium is the new hub to discuss sports

Facebook officially announced Sports Stadium, the new hub designed to allow the populous community that frequents the social network to discuss real-time sports. Initially available in the US, the hub will then be introduced in other markets.

The services offered by the most popular social network networks expand with the introduction of Facebook Sports Stadium, a hub – essentially a new Facebook section also accessible from the mobile – that will allow users to live sports events by sharing opinions and impressions on time really. A sort of virtual stage in which converge, arranged according to the chronological order, first, the post of the contacts and their comments on the game.

The hub will also host the posts and comments of experts in the field, such as those of the members of the teams and journalists, will follow the development of the game in real time, thanks to the timely reporting of scores, and will offer access to the statistics of sport event. There will be information practices, such as how to follow the event on TV.

Facebook Sports Stadium has been announced in the past few hours and will be available initially only in the US market, allowing you to follow as described football games. The first hub version is only the first step in a project that, over time, will expand until you reach more markets and offer extended coverage to a greater number of sports.

Facebook is a clear desire to capitalize on the broad base of users relying on a topic undoubtedly very popular and followed like sports. It, is, in slightly between the lines, the response of the giant of social network’s Twitter Moments – launched last autumn – which offers a selection of the best of the web news, by aggregating all in real time-related tweets. Facebook is applying a similar approach having as a specific target audience that of sports fans.