Twitter updates Periscope in one major way
You may remember that Twitter, the social media company purchased Periscope, the social media live-streaming platform earlier last year. There hasn't been a complete update to the platform since the purchase, until now. Twitter is now releasing a new major update to the social media platforms, that allows for better integration between the two.
That major update includes a new feature that allows the Periscope feed to start autoplaying (minus the sound) right in twitter profiles and timelines. It is important to note that the feature is not available for Moments at this time. The new feature is rolling out globally now after the feature was snuck into a recent iOS app update. The feature will be coming to Android and Web versions, later, according to Twitter.
According to Aaron Wasserman, the update "brings the Periscope format to people who have never experienced Periscope, or don't know what Periscope is," All you need to do is tap the Periscope video in your timeline and it will expand and play sound. You'll be able to see the hearts and comments, but to comment or send hearts yourself you'd need to launch the app via a button in the feed.
Periscope has not revealed specific information, but they claim that there have been 100 million broadcasts to date, which is surprising but could be concerning going forward as Periscope is gaining more competition from Facebook, the other social media giant. Facebook's live video streaming feature has the upper edge over Periscope, in the fact that the videos streamed on their platform never expire, while Periscopes video's expire after 24 hours. This problem is prominent when the videos expire with the new in-line previews feature as when the videos expire, it will take you to a link that says the broadcast has expired. Periscope claims that they are working on implementing a feature to give users an option to watch videos indefinitely. No word on when that feature will be available, but we will for sure let you know when that happens.
Via: | The Verge |
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