Meerkat or Periscope - which application is best for broadcasting video on the Internet

Meerkat and Periscope - these are two nearly identical service for live broadcasts of events of your life. You launch the app, turn on broadcast, and people around the world see to it that you are showing. We compared the two services and determine which of them is better.

By testing these applications, I remembered the TV series "Black mirror». The plot of the second series of the second season is built on the fact that the girl wakes up in a strange house, and did not remember anything at all. Out on the street, and every man who meets her, takes her to a smartphone camera. Naturally, it is almost going crazy, not knowing what kind of society in which all people look at the world through the phone's screen. Be sure to look at the show is worth it.

Meerkat and Periscope - these are two applications that can lead us to such a world. With their help, you can broadcast your life with your smartphone, and viewers around the world will be for you to watch. Sounds at the same time an incredibly cool and damn scary.

Meerkat came out a few months earlier Periscope, but the latter is good that the company that owns them - is Twitter. We compared the two applications and decide which of them is steeper.

Meerkat

Since Meerkat appeared earlier, we'll start with him. To use the application to register, and it can be done only with an account on Twitter. When you enter the application you will immediately be prompted to create broadcast, calling it so that viewers understand what you are going to show. You can start immediately or schedule it for a certain time.

During the broadcast, you can include a front or rear camera, flash, and open a chat, which will communicate with the audience and you.

Broadcast can be completed at any time, and it also conducted on Twitter. Your subscribers will come as a notification at the time when you start. The Meerkat has a leaderboard, which shows a list of people with the greatest number of views and the audience. Much good I did not find it, here you can only go to the user's account on Twitter.

Meerkat in broadcast can be viewed from iOS-devices with a browser, and create only with iOS. There is an unofficial app for Android, but it can only view the current broadcast.

Periscope

The Periscope a strong social component. When you create your account, incidentally, is also only through Twitter, you will be offered to subscribe to the popular users, as well as those for whom you follow on Twitter.

And now to the coolest. If you use a Meerkat and you do not have a large number of followers on Twitter, you can not even hope for the audience - they will not. The Periscope they begin to crumble, and in large quantities all over the world.

Running the broadcast, I watched 25 spectators after only a few minutes, and to comment at the beginning of the broadcast began light hysterical.

Periscope, like Meerkat, available only in the version for iOS, but you can also view the broadcast from the browser. In the near future promise to the app for Android.

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Periscope

Developer: Twitter, Inc.

Price: Free

I do not see any reason to use the Meerkat, given that in the Periscope for your translations will follow more people. Most likely, the power of Twitter in a short time will make the Periscope only such service.

Try it and tell us how you. And Meerkat Periscope and completely free.