Periscope: Explore the world through someone else's eyes

Are you still using Instagram or Pinterest to post pictures? If yes, you are going to be out. Live stream sharing is coming! Last week, my friend recommended me an awesome social App: Periscope, the latest must-have app to hit smartphones.

What is Periscope?

Periscope is Twitter's new live-streaming video app. Simply put, it is a new social platform to explore the world through someone else's eyes. The Periscope team say this on the website:

Just over a year ago, we becamefascinated by the idea of discovering the world through someone else’s eyes.What if you could see through the eyes of a protester in Ukraine? Or watch thesunrise from a hot air balloon in Cappadocia? It may sound crazy, but we wantedto build the closest thing to teleportation. While there are many ways todiscover events and places, we realized there is no better way to experience aplace right now than through live video. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but live video cantake you someplace and show you around.

Periscope allows users to watch and broadcast live video from all across the globe, meaning you could switch from watching a peaceful wander across the beaches of Cornwall to a protest in Egypt. Besides, Periscope can save the video streams once you are finished, so that anyone can view them for up to 24 hours.

How does it work?

Periscope's live feeds can be shot from iPhones and iPads and watched through smartphones, desktops or laptops either through the app or on Twitter's site. 

Users can watch back recent broadcasts or browse live streams by pressing the TV icon on the bottom left of the screen. 
While watching, you can tap the video to send color hearts and supportive comments to broadcasters.

What kind of content can you watch on Periscope? Maybe somebody is watching a game, or maybe the sun is rising over a beach in Florida, or just someone is eating dinner.

It is really an awesome app! Right? What excites me most about Periscope is the power of seeing something for myself. I can even imagine Periscope as a visual pulse of what’s happening right now all around the world.

Periscope launched on March 26, 2015. On August 2nd, Periscope already surpassed 10 million accounts.

Periscope has only been live for several months, but it is already being hailed as the greatest social media platform since Twitter. The unique function of Periscope has attracted more and more people.

Above: Time Watched represents the total amount of time (in years / day) spent watching live broadcasts on iOS & Android. Does not include time watching on the Web or replays.

Above: DAUrepresents Periscope iOS & Android only. Doesn’t include periscope.tv webviewers.

Future

Periscope, as a new app, already has a nice start. What’s the next? How to use it into business? It needs us explore it. Now I have an cool idea. Maybe we can integrate Periscope into wearable technology like Google Glass in the future, which would make video more convenient, and it would look very cool!