Social networks have become one of the essential tools to communicate not only with our friends, but with the rest of the world. Characteristics such as immediacy or its global diffusion make these apps the most used by users when it comes to being with their tablets or smartphones. And, currently, we can find from the best known such as Facebook or Twitter, to others more specific in fields such as photography such as EyeEm.
Expressing what we think or disseminating an event that has happened suddenly in our closest environment, are two of the functions that it incorporates Twitter. This network, which has hundreds of millions of users from all over the world, continues to present a limitation in some aspects, and that is the fact of telling what happens in just a handful of characters. However, it is believed that soon, its founders will remove this feature, but until it arrives, they have released add-on apps like Periscope, of which we detail its most important aspects below.
What is it?
Until now, users of Twitter they could insert images or share links to videos when writing their messages. Periscope goes one step further and allows sharing and dissemination live videos anywhere in the world. Another novelty that it incorporates is that if it receives many "hearts", your creation will be placed at the top of the world rankings of users of this network.
Protect your videos
Among the functions that we have highlighted before, Periscope incorporates others such as the option to allow them to see videos only our followers or the users that we choose at the same time that the content can be view multiple times if we want it. These functions can be locked at any time. On the other hand, when uploading them, we will have the option to activate notifications that will suggest users to whom we can follow on Twitter.
On the way to success?
This Twitter add-on is on the way to 50 million downloads. Does not have no cost and neither does it incorporate the possibility of making integrated purchases. However, many users criticize that it is not yet a perfect app as they persist failures important as unexpected closings when recording videos or slowdown devices when using them. Another aspect to improve is that it is only available for the latest versions of Android.
As we have seen, social networks are increasingly comprehensive tools that allow us to interact instantly with people from all over the world. You have more information available on other similar apps such as Plag, with which you can freely express yourself and spread your ideas as if it were a virus.