Twitter Periscope Live Broadcasting Now Available New App

Twitter has published a proprietary live-streaming video app for iOS .

This news comes in a context where a few weeks ago it was announced a similar service Meerkat at the SXSW .

The new app called Periscope works by allowing its users to live-stream from their smartphones to viewed publicly on-line.

This new app is not a new idea, as there are already similar apps available, however in this case it appears to be trending topic as technology such as 4G allows for better capabilities and signal improvement responsiveness. In practice the way it works is that much in the same way as other apps that can live stream,  As soon as an event starts by a user by starting a broadcast it is followed by an optional alert that is published live on their twitter stream. 

As expected, the live broadcast has the interactive capability for users to comment and send “hearts”. Another option available is the possibility to "lock" a broadcast so that it becomes private or accessible to only certain approved users.

Currently the new app is only available on the Apple store.  In comparison the new app Periscope with Meerkat does have some key differences in terms of media content offering features to users, 

With Periscope users can save the video streams after the broadcast has finished, for later viewing for a period of 24 hours, on the other hand Meerkat is ephemeral and live video disappears once you finish broadcasting.

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Twitter Will Join Next Week Linux Foundation

In an overall context, the web technology services currently active over the internet, there is an understanding by almost all and accepted that it is important to have dependencies based on Linux operating technology.  Furthermore, many technology businesses continue to join the Linux Foundation, which is a “nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux.”

The Linux Foundation purpose is to provide a neutral base where businesses and users can interact, collaborate and contribute to Linux’s development, as a result it includes many important Linux Foundation members such as IBM, Intel, Google, HP and Oracle.  The big news today is that Twitter will be join next week.

Chris Aniszczyk, Manager of Open Source (will present at  LinuxCon), Twitter stated “Linux and its ability to be heavily tweaked is fundamental to our technology infrastructure... By joining The Linux Foundation we can support an organization that is important to us and collaborate with a community that is advancing Linux as fast as we are improving Twitter.”

New members also include Inktank and Servergy.

Twitter Planning Platform Structural Improvements

Following a recent article, it is apparent that twitter is planning many changes at its core platform. As a result this means, that the web technology is always evolving and competing for better ease of display for its users and more notably to advertisers and marketing companies. Twitter has already implemented media rich tweets, however not to the extend it is now planning.

The aim seems to be to please advertisers and thus increase profitability, the main development is being directed to producing rich media kind of expandable widgets that are called cards, an example can be seen here.  Twitter is now preparing and engaging with developers so that apps can be built using this new functionality and as a result embed cards to be displayed.

There are existing twitter applications where these "cards" may never be displayed, examples are Tweetbot and Flipboard. It can then be concluded that these apps may have to stop operating. It then follows that for this apparent reason, the Flipboard CEO Mike McCue has recently resigned from the Twitter board.  There are many interesting developments currently happening at twitter so we do recommend to read the full story here.

The Ultimate Twitter Tools List

Twitter is very popular, and many people use it in different ways as well as using different tools. Even for the advanced twitter user, it can be difficult to keep up with new tools and their success or disappearance. In many cases, when people are comfortable with one tool they will remain to loyal to. As a result, users may use tools which are convenient which they are used to but not necessarily the best tools. In this post we present a list of the many available to get the best of twitter usage.

Clients

• TweetDeck


• Seesmic


• HootSuite


• Destroy Twitter


• Hibari


• Twitbin


• Echofon


• ManageFlitter


• Twidget


• TwitterForBusyPeople


• Refollow


• All My Tweets

Interesting Tools

• twitcam


• Buffer


• TweetMeme


• Twitter Status


• Twileshare


• Twitvid


• Twups


• Tweetwally


• TweetMyJobs

Group Tools

• Splitweet


• BirdHerd


• Nurph


• Chitty Chat


• GroupTweet


• TweetChat


• Twibes

Management

• Proxlet


• Slipstream


• Shuush


• Mute.ly


• TwitBlock


• Tweetizen


• Followize

Marketing

• Twylah


• DataSift


• CoTweet


• Twittad


• SocialBro


• BrandChirp


• TweetReach


• adCause


• Twitalyzer


• Featured Users


• Twitdemic


• TwtQpon


• Twtpoll


• Twilert


• The Archivist


• Twitter Counter


• Tweriod


• Commun.it


• Hashtracking


• Who Tweeted Me

Twitter Search

• Twitter / Search


• PostPost


• Snap Bird


• Cloud.li


• BackTweets


• Tweet Scan

Visualizations

• A World of Tweets


• Tori’s Eye


• Social Collider 


• Visible Tweets


• TweepsKey


• Revisit


• Mentionmapp


• The View from Above


• Vizify TweetSheet

Recommendations who to follow

• WeFollow


• Qwitter


• Friend or Follow


• Twibs


• Listorious


• Follow Cost


• Fllwrs

Influence Reports and Statistics

• Klout


• PeerIndex


• TweetLevel

Other Useful Tools

• Portwiture


• #earthtweet


• Food Feed


• Trick.ly


• TweetBackup


• Twilk


• FileSocial


• Nearby Tweets


• dlvr.it


• Tweepi


• Tweetboard


• TrueTwit


• Twitterfeed


• TwitLOL


• Twittereye


• Loudtwitter


• RetweetFollow


• TweepsMap


• DoesFollow


• Tweetburner


• QuoteURL


• Flickr my Background


• Twinslator


• Twepe


• useqtwitter


• Contaxio