Twitter will send you a notification when one of your network begins a live feed. If any of your followers have a Periscope feed, then you can opt in to subscribe to their broadcasts.

Anyone with a Twitter account can download the Periscope app for free and use it to shoot videos. Periscope is now exclusively available to Twitter users. After less than a year, Periscope was snapped up by Twitter for a cool $100 million. For them, it was the “closest thing to teleportation.” The idea clearly worked. Their vision was for users to be able to experience a place directly ‘in the moment’, wherever they are in the world. Its creators were inspired by the intimacy of Youtube v-log channels and wanted to take this one step further by enabling live video feeds. Periscope is the epitome of a successful tech start-up. The question on a lot of people’s tongues is whether Periscope is any good as a business tool? Having played about with Periscope over the last few months and had some good results, our answer is definitely yes. Since launching in March 2015, Periscope has become highly popular with 4G mobile users, and is often used alongside Snapchat and Instagram.

Periscope is a new social media video streaming app designed to work with Twitter.

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