Twitter introduces Periscope, its live video-streaming app

Twitter has launched Periscope, which now allows users to share and watch live video broadcasts from their mobile phones.  

 

Twitter has always intended to give users a way to discover the world through someone else’s eyes. While there are many ways to discover events and places, Twitter realized there is no better way to experience a place right now than through live video. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but live video can take one to a place and shows them around.

Users are able to title their broadcasts as well and allows only those only those you choose to view it.

Periscope allows broadcasters to share experiences with others. Press a button, and instantly notify your followers that you’re live. Broadcasters on Periscope are directly connected to their audience, able to feel their presence and interact.

For viewers, Periscope gives a new set of eyes and ears. The ability to travel the world and step into someone else’s shoes. See what they see, hear what they hear, and hopefully feel what they feel. Watching a broadcast isn’t a passive experience like television. On Periscope, viewers influence the broadcaster by sending messages, and expressing their love by tapping the screen to send hearts.

One can tap the video while watching to send a color coded heart. 

While Twitter brings one closer to people, places, interests, and events in an experience that’s immediate, unfettered, and conversational, periscope helps further that mission by giving people a way to share and experience the world around them, both near and far.

Recently, Twitter launched Tweet Deck teams that lets you share accounts without sharing passwords. They also lunched “While you were away” feature that keeps you abreast with what’s happening on Twitter even when you are offline.