
Meerkat streams are only accessible when live

Users watching can like your video and/or send you comments. You can update your Twitter followers when you begin and your followers within the app will also be notified. In the words of Periscope, live streaming video apps allow you to “Explore the world through someone else’s eyes.” Using either app, a user can film the world around them with their mobile phone’s camera and any other user of the app, anywhere in the world, can watch, like, comment, and participate in real-time. Periscope and Meerkat are live streaming video apps accessed with your Twitter account on your mobile phone. Read on for a quick primer on the two apps competing for your live video streaming. The apps we’re talking about are Periscope and Meerkat and they let you connect with your supporters in real-time and as never before. Both are so new that usage is still somewhat low, but growing among certain demographics, and brands are just beginning to dip their toes in. People will also still be able to create broadcasts programmatically through the Periscope public API, which will also be migrating to the Twitter API in 2021.Two apps that offer a new way of engaging with your supporters launched just a few months ago. Additionally, Brands, publishers and creators can go live on Twitter by using the Twitter Media Studio. Periscope users will be able to move to Twitter and broadcast using Twitter Live.

The Periscope mobile app will be discontinued on March 31, 2021, but live video will live on as an important part of the conversation on Twitter. We’re so grateful to all of you who put your heart and soul into making Periscope the place to show what’s happening in your world, creating vibrant communities and making the app what it was. Thank you to everyone in the Periscope community for sharing the world through your eyes these past five years.
