Within just a short time, mobile livestreaming has found a home in Periscope. This app allows you to broadcast live video to people across the globe. Once you are live, your followers get instant notification and they can join, comment, as well as send you hearts in real time. Periscope is a great app especially in today’s life when things like taking pictures of your lunch or breakfast are celebrated and shared by many people on social media.
The Periscope app is designed to take into consideration bite-sized streaming sessions, and controlled environments in which to look closely into people’s day to day activities. Whether this is a trend or not is immaterial, as one thing that we all agree is, digital interaction is here for good.
To gain access to browse the app, you have to link your account with Twitter. However, with Periscope, you have the option to follow everybody you follow on Twitter or not. You can also search for Periscope users without having to follow them on Twitter. Once you are logged into Periscope, you are greeted with a relaxing interface that is user-friendly by way of tabs, and you will be viewing your initial stream in an instant.
Through the Periscope
When you host a stream, you see what is seen by your viewers filling the screen of your phone. Before you begin broadcasting, you can choose to toggle your location info, send out a Tweet with a browser link, or even host a personal session with only selected followers. There is a feature that lets hosts restrict commenting and only have viewers who also follow the host to comment. This is a good way to keep conversations focused because if somebody says something disproportionate, you just tap their comment and block them.
During a stream, a tiny number at the bottom shows the total number of viewers. Viewers in Periscope enjoy the same clean interface enjoyed by the stream’s hosts, but with different tools available for them. Tapping on the screen brings forth little hearts, and you can tap away to your heart’s content.
Viewers can also leave comments, which emerge as smart little bubbles which disappear after some seconds. The host cannot type back, and has to speak out loud to reply. This is actually sort of a neat interaction, and it ensures that the comments remain tidy. Viewers can watch periscope streams in their browsers, as well, though they cannot interact with the host, or see hearts or comments.
If you wish, you can save the streams you make at the end of your Periscope stream. Also, you can delete streams saved to Periscope so as to prevent others from replaying your streams. However, you cannot embed the streams saved by Periscope on its servers. Unfortunately, hearts and user comments are not visible in Periscope videos saved to your phone, though they do show in the videos saved to Periscope online.
What Is Seen On Periscope?
Periscope has views of various things from people’s homes, offices, parties and dogs, to disasters. Here, viewers are able to see several streams on things like making news, which offers multiple angles from Periscope users all around the city. With Periscope, I finally understand why live streaming can be very compelling, and its potential in changing our online interactions. With Periscope, it is possible to see the world unfold right now, and then watch it all again later.
The major reason why Periscope stands out compared to its rival mobile live streaming apps is its ability to save streams, which gives every stream life outside the moment. In addition to this, Periscope is highly polished, extremely user-friendly, and has worked to fast introduce vital new features, such as highlighting Periscope feeds from your friends and limiting comments to followers.
However, I am generally wary of mobile live streaming. It is now possible to broadcast live videos of people we are not familiar with, without their knowledge. This can be done with exceptional ease and it would have deadly consequences. This is not to say these apps are doomed. They are here to stay in today’s digital interaction world; care should be taken though.
In conclusion, the Periscope app, with the right tools, might end up becoming (if it is not already) the ultimate way of streaming on mobile devices much like Twitter is the king of shorthand communication. Even for those who are not big live streaming fans, the Periscope app makes it straightforward to see the appeal.
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