Periscope, Twitter’s livestreaming video app, rolled out a brand new feature today that brings a new type of broadcast to the platform.
SEE ALSO:Twitter bans Alex Jones and InfoWars for goodWhen updating Periscope to the latest version, the livestreaming video app now allows users to create audio-only broadcasts. The latest version description reads:
Ever want to just talk with your audience on Periscope? In this update you can go live with audio only, so your viewers can hear (but not see) you. To try out an audio-only broadcast, tap on the new microphone icon on the broadcast setup screen. You can select this option before you start your broadcast, or at any time while you’re live!
In a blog post, Twitter engineer Richard Plom went a bit further into how audio-only broadcasts came to be. According to Plom, Perscope users have long requested the feature and had previously created their own ad hoc workaround by covering the camera lense of the phone when broadcasting. During #HackWeek at Twitter, the development team got together and made this happen in one work week.
Tweet may have been deleted
With this update, anyone can login to Periscope and stream and audio-only broadcast to their audience while still taking advantage of Periscope’s hearts, chatroom, and other interactive features. In place of video, the app creates an animated audiowave visual that renders to match the audio being broadcast by the streamer.
While not quite podcasting in its method of distribution, Periscope’s addition of an audio-only broadcasting feature due to user demand shows just how popular online audio shows and series’ continue to become.
Tweet may have been deleted
Even as technology continues to improve which allows for even higher quality video uploads and livestreams, a growing audience of internet users prefer to strip away those visual features and just consume content as a podcast.
TopicsSocial MediaTwitter
(责任编辑：休閑)
Satisfy your Olympics withdrawals with Nike's latest app
5 weird Apple commercials from the '80s we can't stop watching
These are the Babu Frik tweets you're looking for
When is it OK to talk about being horny?
Mom discovers security cameras hacked, kids' bedroom livestreamedTributes flow after death of former Singapore president S.R. Nathan
The Singaporean government has announced that former president, 92-year-old Sellapan Ramanathan (wid
...[详细]Janelle Monae shouted out Oscars So White in her musical opening
Janelle Monae set a bold tone for the 92nd Academy Awards with a jazzy opening number that highlight
...[详细]
It's time to re-purpose Nintendo's old "Now you're playing with power!" tagline.There's a new custom
...[详细]Here's the real reason Mark Zuckerberg is so afraid of TikTok
Mark Zuckerberg has already made it clear he has no love for TikToK, but we now have an even clearer
...[详细]Aly Raisman catches Simone Biles napping on a plane like a champion
Simone Biles is exhausted. She won five medals at the Summer Olympics in Rio, posed for selfies with
...[详细]United Airlines will not get rid of Biscoff cookies permanently, whew
Biscoff cookies are the perfect plane snack. They're sweet but not too sweet, they're crumbly but no
...[详细]Bloomberg is running his campaign's Twitter like a brand, and it's not landing
There’s no other way to write this: Mike Bloomberg's official presidential campaign tweeted a
...[详细]I can't stop thinking about that sex scene in 'Sex Education' Season 2
I can't stop thinking about the Indian dance sex scene on Netflix's Sex Education.Listen, if you've
...[详细]Uber's $100M settlement over drivers as contractors may not be enough
UPDATE: Sept. 7, 2016, 4:41 p.m. EDT
。 A ruling in a different case on Wednesday, Sept. 7 may have ch
...[详细]Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician and subject of 'Hidden Figures,' dead at 101
Katherine Johnson, a pioneering NASA mathematician, died Monday at the age of 101. Johnson is celebr
...[详细]This German startup wants to be your bank (without being a bank)
'The Office' children's book is here to inspire a whole new generation of fans
