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Have y'all heard of this? It officially launched in March and you can basically live stream the entire world from your phone. 

 

I think this is gonna change the world. It is really cool in a lot of ways but can be kind of creepy too. And how will governments and police use it?

 

Anyone else have it? Tried it?

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I have it, its not being used for anything serious, most of the time I've seen some celebrities use it to live stream with fans. Sometimes people use it to film concerts for people who can't see them in person. It's pretty cool but like most new social media, it will be hard for it to gain an equal amount of popularity  the big 4 (Facebook, twitter, instagram and snapchat) have. 

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It's pretty cool but like most new social media, it will be hard for it to gain an equal amount of popularity  the big 4 (Facebook, twitter, instagram and snapchat) have. 

 

Twitter owns Periscope. They purchased it in March, right around the time that another live-streaming video app, Meerkat, became an overnight viral sensation. 

 

I downloaded it when it was first rolled out in the App Store and played around with it, but although it's a cool app I haven't used it as much as I thought I would. It sure came in handy during the ALDS when home Astros games were blacked out locally and a couple of users were streaming the broadcasts, even if they wound up going offline before the games were over. 

 

Twitter is already the best source for rapidly-breaking news of significant events, and I think adding live-streaming video to that mix will definitely augment their existing strengths.

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It really hasn't and I'm sure the app explicitly prohibits that unless otherwise marked as NSFW

Although I think you may have just discovered a new untapped niche

 

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I have seen Periscope used by a gospel singer to broadcast herself drinking and later cussing out fans who thought it was in bad taste. Nobody really cared except for the holier than thou crowd.

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My favorite story from this so far was the girl who live streamed herself driving home drunk.  Some of the viewers called her in and the police were able to track her down from the landmarks she was passing in her video.  

Wow, glad they got her.  Hopefully the app can be used to prevent more people being injured.  But like comments posted above, it's probably going to be used for pornographic purposes instead.  Like everything else.  

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My first exposure to it was during the Paris attacks and a person was doing a live feed from outside the theatre. As a software dev, I was pretty blown away by the quality of the video in real time. The stream from a person's phone was increasing by 1k users a minute and the video just kept rolling. Really cool technology.

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