The application appeared Thursday morning on the App Store. Periscope: an application to stream video live simply; the live streaming from their smartphone to the world. And the whole world may comment. A kind of mobile Chatroulette without the randomness and yet without exhibitionists. There is everything and a lot of nothing to Gareth cleans his apartment in San Francisco in pajamas, DonMing “periscope” her breakfast (he eats fruit salad), Bart walks his dog in a muddy path. The site Buzzfeed himself has proposed to perform live drawings mocking Zayn Malik (the deserter of One Direction) on ideas submitted by its users.
Periscope is the latest foray Twitter in the video after the redemption Vine in 2012. An application purchased for $ 100 million (nearly € 92 million) in January and launched with great fanfare. In recent weeks, the social network would indeed face the intrusion Meerkat in his tweets. Acclaimed festival of technological innovations South by Southwest, used by politicians or TV presenters, this concurrent application could see winning sensation of the year status. But Twitter, determined to promote his product home, made it more difficult to access Meerkat from its social network. You must click on a link to access videos Meerkat where Periscope is directly integrated with Twitter posts.
“The closest thing possible to teleport”
Another strong point Periscope: the possibility of making their video replay for twenty-four hours after their live broadcast. The application also allows to make its videos available to everyone or to selected users. Tech site The Verge summarizes: “Meerkat looks like an application developed in eight weeks -this it is. Periscope is in development for over a year and comes with attention Welcome to detail. “ Meerkat, meanwhile, has the privilege of have launched first, and already totals more than 300,000 users a month after its launch.
What use Internet users will they Periscope and Meerkat? “And if you could see through the eyes of a protester in Ukraine? Or watch the sunrise from a hot air balloon in Cappadocia? This may sound crazy, but we wanted to build teleporting the closest thing possible, “ write the creators of Periscope on time to launch their application on the Apple Store (it will be available soon on Android) . A new way to share information, with events filmed live and relayed via Twitter. “Anyone can be the next CNN” formulated a tech journalist with the Washington Post. For the moment, we can especially see Bradley throw eggs from the third Chattanooga floor of a building.
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