Shares of Twitter (TWTR) today are up $1.53, or almost 8%, at $21.07, hitting a seven-month high, following a New York Times report the company is going to have its service featured on Apple’s (AAPL) Apple TV set-top-box.

The Times’s Mike Isaacreports that after having won a deal with the National Football League to carry Thursday Night Football as a "live stream,” the company is now looking to take that to Apple TV.

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