Twitter announced Periscope, the new app that allows people to create, share and transmit live streaming video directly from your smartphone. Periscope is from March 26 available for download from Apple App Store for iOS devices. Among the familiar faces that use Italian Periscope there are Fiorello, Pif, Rudy Zerbi and Francesco Facchinetti.
Written by Simone Ziggiotto, the 29/03/15
Twitter officially announced Periscope ( periscopeco), the new app that allows people to create, share and transmit live streaming video directly from their smartphone. Periscope is from March 26 available for download from Apple App Store for iOS devices.
How It Works? With a few touches, Periscope allows you to create a video stream by sending a notification to all followers, or only to a selected group. All “spectators” who are watching live can comment in real time and streamed video, once concluded streaming, can also be deleted, made available on Periscope for a period of 24 hours or saved on the roller picture of your smartphone.
While streaming, everyone can interact with those transmitting video by sending comments, questions and suggestions, or just sharing if transmission likes it or not.
Periscope is already utilizato from some famous Italians and foreigners. Up Periscope you can find: Rosario Fiorello (fiorello), Pif (pif_iltestimone), Rudy Zerbi (rudyzerbi), Francesco Facchinetti (frafacchinetti), J-Ax (jaxofficial) Maccio Capatonda (marciocapatonda), Federico Russo (@ federusso80), Benjamin Millepied – French dancer (b_millepied), Al Rocker – NBC Today Show (alroker), Aaron Paul – Breaking Bad co-star (@ aaronpaul_8), Mary J. Blige – singer (maryjblige) Will.I.Am – musician (iamwill), Arnold Schwarzenegger – (Schwarzenegger).
Periscope is currently available for iOS on the App Store, and soon it will be for Android devices.
Meerkat , the application that allows you to share a video stream at the touch of a button, has just closed a financing round of $ 12 million. It ‘a new application whose popularity is growing, because it syncs with Twitter to share live streaming real-time. However, a few days ago it was reported that Twitter may have deliberately limited functionality Meerkat just for the launch of Periscope – for example, has taken away the ability for users to Meerkat send an automatic notification to the followers that a transmission has started.
Update 15 March 2015: Twitter buys Periscope
Twitter has quietly purchased Periscope , a startup that is developing an app to allow live-stream video. To reveal cone “people familiar with the matter” cited by the newspaper Business Insider.
The company’s social-media has paid just under $ 100 million, according to sources of BI, an amount that would make the ‘ purchase of Periscope one of the most expensive investments Twitter . Payment is said to have been made with a mix of cash and stock, but for the most part in cash.
The deal was closed about a month ago, according to sources of the newspaper, but only today we become aware of it. Meanwhile, another app that allows Twitter users to view live video from their mobile on Twitter has been released: Meerkat has attracted 60,000 users in the eight days since it was released, according to the its founder, Ben Rubin.
Periscope, meanwhile, is an app that has yet to be launched to the general public. E ‘was opened on beta-testing the application in a few selected users about four months ago. Among the first users of Periscope there are also Jessica Verrilli’s business development team of Twitter, who is friends of the co-founder of Periscope Kayvon Beykpour, according to people familiar with the matter. Soon, the team members of the executive management and the board of directors have joined Twitter users with access to the private beta, including CEO Dick Costolo and co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey. After this period, which presumably has generated a certain satisfaction among executives, the idea of buying the app.
The acquisition reflects the move by Twitter to strengthen its capabilities related to the video. Last year the social network began to experience video ads and launched the ability for users to upload and edit their own videos. The company is also still developing Vine, the app that lets you share short videos of seconds, that Twitter acquired in 2012.
The addition of the ability to broadcast live video on Twitter makes sense, if we consider that one of the strengths of the company is to be a service to share information in real time.
Mr. Rubin said he is not worried after reading the news of the acquisition Periscope by Twitter. “I think it’s wonderful,” he said. “I think Twitter is a smart company that knows what they’re doing.”
At the moment it is not known when it is scheduled to launch public Periscope.
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