Live web vid spaff app Periscope shoved up Android mobes

Popular live video-broadcasting app Periscope has been released as an Android app via the Google Play store. A trio of Periscope engineers announced the release on a Medium post Tuesday morning. Periscope, Twitter's answer to fellow mobile broadcasting app Meerkat, allows users to record and broadcast live video streams from …

[GregC]

This might just be me..

..and I've never used it, so I could easily be missing something - but what is it about Periscope that's special? What does it do that any other "film some stuff, shove it on the web" app doesn't?

Genuinely curious.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: This might just be me..

Just a thought but wouldn't it be useful for activists? Flat refuses all my tablets so I have no exact idea. Of course the Twit tie-up may contribute some value since Twitter was so rude to disable access to that part of the API by third parties.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: This might just be me..

It streams live video.