Facebook has just released two new features to the public just in time for the biggest American sporting event of the year. Live Video and Sports Stadium, the two new functions, allow users to keep up with live-action events in a more immediate way than previously possible.

Sports Stadium, an collective aggregate aimed specifically at football fans (although Facebook says it will expand to other sports soon) allows users to follow games, get live stats and see commentary from both the experts and their Facebook friends. This comes as Facebook’s response to both ESPN and Twitter, currently most avid sports fans’ go-to sources for the very latest news on sports.

Facebook’s other update, Live Video, is more versatile. Until now, the feature had only been available to celebrities, but now anyone can broadcast their life live to Newsfeed, much like Twitter’s Periscope. All a user need do is click on the halo icon and begin broadcasting video footage. And, unlike Periscope, Facebook saves the video to the user’s timeline once the streaming is complete. Super Bowl Sunday will be a major test for Live Video with many users testing the new feature at various points in the game.

Both Sports Stadium and Live Video are part of Facebook’s continual efforts to make Twitter irrelevant. Though currently the leading source of up to the second news, Twitter has fewer users than Facebook—320 million monthly users total, while Facebook boasts 650 million sports fans alone. Facebook hopes to leverage its numbers against Twitter’s established place in sports and live stream video.

Looking past the big game, these new functions will allows all Facebook users to relate to each on a more intimate level. Time will tell what this implies for businesses with a Facebook prescence.

Sources via Wired.