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hey everyone it's Sam Shepard with The Verge recently Twitter purchased an app called periscope it's a live streaming app that's very similar to meerkat but the app came out today so let's take a look at how it works so this is periscope as soon as you jump in the app you are brought into the watch page there are three big live streams here and then there are a bunch of other live streams below you can't sort through any of these I don't even know who these people are and they seem to be completely random and change upon refreshing and then on the bottom here you have your recent streams these are mine and some of my friends then you have the people tab and these are the people that I'm following on Twitter you've got a search function here and you've got your profile page here very similar to a twitter has but then obviously you've got the broadcast page here so let's do a broadcast right now testing start broadcast so this is a live periscope we are live now we have one person five people and we are filming a live hands-on video hello everyone watching this so these hearts here are people tapping the screen to like show love basically and in the profile you have your heart count which i think is kind of interesting and you can see the chat here on the side you can see who joined and you can see the chat hello Charlie so let's go ahead and stop this broadcast and what's neat is it gives you stats so it gives you duration time watched and it shows you who you viewed it and then you can save it to your camera roll as well and one of the best parts about periscope is that your broadcasts are saved for 24 hours which is something that meerkat doesn't have overall it's a really well polished app streams are way less clutter than meerkats are and I like it