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Live broadcasting apps

Started by Alberon, March 29, 2015, 04:55:43 PM

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Alberon

This morning I downloaded Periscope from Twitter. Much like Meerkat released a few weeks back it's an app, which allows you to broadcast video live. Periscope lets you browse any live feeds, though I can't see a way to search it yet. You can send text messages to the broadcasters as well which pop up on the screen for them and everyone watching the feed to see.

So far as you'd expect no one has anything really to say. I've just watched a feed of a woman showing us round the exterior of Costco in New York. Before that it was someone filming their daughter playing minecraft. Earlier on though, I did find a bunch of American twenty-somethings smoking dabs in bongs and several men fapping furiously in the semi-darkness on feeds with deliberately false names. Always very bad camerawork on the last kind as well. Worst of all, there is some kind of meme going where all anyone asks the broadcasters is about their fridge.

Despite all that I've spent a good hour through the day flipping through feeds. Probably never log in again after today, but it's passing a sunday for me at the moment.

Twitter have said they want to keep porn off of it, but fat chance of them managing that. And the first suicide on it can only be weeks away.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/26/periscope-review-twitter-live-streaming-service-meerkat
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32064576

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I had a look at this a few days ago, entertained me for literally seconds.