Bell Aliant Inc. brings the best social TV experience to Atlantic Canadians with a new Twitter app for FibreOPTM TV. The app integrates the best Twitter features with regular TV programming on the biggest screen in the home.
The Twitter app for FibreOP TV is the latest in a line of firsts for Bell Aliant’s FibreOP network which includes its Facebook app and covering an entire city with fibre-to-the-home technology. The way we watch TV is changing and customers want to bring the Internet experience to the biggest screen in the house. A recent TV Trends study by Bell Aliant and Ipsos Reid found 73 per cent of Atlantic Canadians want to watch TV while they surf the web and use apps like Facebook and Twitter for TV. Fifty-nine per cent like to chat online while watching their favourite shows.
“FibreOP is the only network that brings the best of social media and the Internet to Atlantic Canadian TV screens. Customers’ reaction to our social TV experience has been phenomenal. Today over fifty per cent of our customers are using the Facebook app and they want more,” said Andre LeBlanc, Vice-President Residential Services, Bell Aliant. “FibreOP was designed to be future proof and we will continue to deliver new services and apps that will create the best TV and Internet experience in the market.”
To coincide with the American Idol season finale, Bell Aliant is hosting a “Tweet on Your TV” contest. Customers can enter the contest by following @Bell_Aliant on Twitter, logging on to the Twitter app on their TV, tuning into American Idol and using the app to tweet the show they are watching. Customers who tweet that they are watching American Idol will be placed in a draw to win free FibreOP for a year ($1,000 value). To access the Twitter app on FibreOP TV, customers need an active Twitter account and a Bell Aliant Internet connection. The app supports up to five unique Twitter accounts per household.
