Not long ago Twitter bought an application to be able to broadcast live video and thus compete against Meerkat. Meerkat is an application that allows the user to create live videos and share them, this application caused a great fury to thousands of iOS users and because of this Twitter bought Periscope.
Twitter launches Periscope, an application where the user can broadcast a live video. Although until now in the social network a user can comment with 140 characters what he is seeing, his thoughts or anything else that comes to mind. Now the social network is looking for a new stage.
This new stage is to make a video of what we are seeing and to be able to share it so that other users can see it. These videos will be available both live and the next 24 hours of recording. The operation of Periscope is simple, practical and in addition it will also be social, as expected.
Therefore, when a user starts broadcasting, their followers will be notified so that if they prefer, access the video and can comment live or send hearts as a synonym that they like what they are seeing. On the subject of privacy, which is a somewhat sensitive issue as long as a new application is discussed, the user can choose whether the broadcast will be only for their followers or share the broadcast to a limited number of people.
In addition, as they have said in the presentation statement, Periscope will be 100% integrated with Twitter, so when the user, as long as he accepts this option, he will be able to publish a link to the new application's broadcasts on the blue bird's social network. These links can be shared directly from the application and can be viewed in any browser.
It is curious to see how, in just a few weeks after Twitter's acquisition of Periscope, the microblogging social network has officially launched the application under its responsibility. The application is currently only available for the iOS platform, while on the other hand the Android version will be available during the next few weeks.
We will be attentive to new updates to this application so that we can speak more thoroughly, first-hand, about what this application is capable of doing. And you, What do you think of these types of applications ? Do you think that social networks as such are finished?
