How Kayvon Beykpour’s live-streaming app Periscope fits into Twitter while also being its own thing.
How Kayvon Beykpour’s live-streaming app Periscope fits into Twitter while also being its own thing.
If you’re not paying careful attention, you might think that Periscope is a live-broadcasting capability within Twitter, akin to Facebook’s Live Video, an offering that is said to occupy an outsize percentage of Mark Zuckerberg’s attention these days. Periscope videos, after all, appear seamlessly inside tweets. And each time you compose a tweet, there’s a “Live” button tempting you to broadcast rather than type.
