From what we've known lately Periscope is skyrocketing in users and activity, and let's say it's becoming quite a trend right now. Just as Twitter, Facebook or Instagram was at the time. Another of those services that take us to the connected world through social networks, apps and all kinds of mobile devices. Either from what is a live game or what it would be like to be at a party with strangers who have stopped to stream their events or the sunset on one of the beaches of Ibiza to the sound of the drums, Periscope it is a service that is launched directly to stardom.
And since we want you to know each of its nooks and crannies, we bring to the fore each of its details and the substance of this application which is well linked to what Twitter is, hence was acquired by this same company. So let's move on to what Periscope has in store for us.
But what is Periscope?
Generally speaking, Periscope is about an app that helps you get to know and explore the world by watching and streaming video in real time. This is its greatest quality and the central axis in which each of its main elements fit and are greased.
When someone launches a live stream they share the video, audio and location of where they are with their fans or followers. Location is something that can be configured to deactivate it if desired.
Those who are playing or watching live streaming they will be able to interact in real time with messages and heartsThese being the kind of "I like you" of Periscope. As in Twitter, we can follow users at the same time that we can reproduce streams from the links shared from Twitter itself.
Periscope basics
We log in with our Twitter account, or even with the phone number in the app, after it has been downloaded. Once this is done, we will have already made the first step to go to a screen where we can follow users that we have on Twitter.
And we will move on to the main screen that has clear influences to Material Design with the three main icons at the top that take us to the three vital categories of Periscope. The first one on the left is to access the live streams that are or have occurred from any of the users you follow; the central one, with the image of the planet, places us before the most popular livecasts or streams of the moment; and the one on the right, for which they would be recommended users. When you access this last tab, you can go to your profile from the icon on the right.
At the bottom of the screen we have the floating FAB button that leads us to launch a public or private streaming. When we launch a private streaming only those who follow you and have assigned you will be able to see the video. We give the streaming a title and go to three options: the first to share the location, the second to designate who can chat, and the third to decide if we want this streaming to go to Twitter.
Streaming
Moment streaming works with portrait view, so the landscape will have to wait for a new update. You have as an option to use one of the two cameras that you have in the terminal, and logically the front will suffer a bit due to the quality, but this depends on the phone you have.
One of the important data is that while you are streaming, those who play the video will have a lag of 1-2 seconds. The moment you want to end the streaming, with a downward swipe you end it.
Here now enters one of the facets of Periscope. The moment you finish streaming, you access the statistics directly. Retention rate, total viewers, total watch time and the duration will appear immediately before you.
It is important that you know that Periscope saves all streams for 24 hours, for which at that moment they will disappear. Let's think that we are facing a kind of Snapchat of live and direct streaming. Something ephemeral that passes before us and that will no longer pass before us, hence Periscope is growing and growing without stopping.
The fleeting and substantial thing that passes before us
This is the Periscope philosophy, which "Let others see the world as we see it". This is the maxim and motto of this application and the study in charge of its development.
We share experiences, and these will pass for 24 hours so that anyone who follows us can reproduce them and get to know us closely or what surrounds us. With an elegantly designed, easy-to-use app that prepares us for another of the experiences as a service connected to an online world through which we travel.
If you had not tried it and you want to know one of the trends of the moment, do not delay in passing through the eyes of Periscope. Highly recommended.
