How live video on Periscope helped 'get inside' the Syrian refugees story
This is a story about a journalist who travelled across Europe with the Syrian refugees and used the new twitter developed app called "Periscope" which is basically a app which allows you to live stream directly from your phone. He utilised this app to share what was going on with the refugees with the world.
- Bild reporter Paul Ronzheimer travelled across Europe live-streaming interviews: ‘For the refugee story, the personalisation is very important’
- one journalist for German newspaper Bild has found a way to use his smartphone to help those people tell their stories direct to readers. Or rather viewers.
- “At the beginning I had about 1,500 followers, but now I have around 33,000. It became really big: one of the videos was played and replayed more than 90,000 times,” says Ronzheimer.
In my opinion i think this is a very interesting story because it shows us how powerful new and digital media can be in terms of sharing news and the fact that one guy can show almost 100,000 what the Syrian refugees are going through just from his smartphone. which makes the story feel more real.
Twitter’s TV strategy: timelines, Periscope and troll-taming talent
- Users of the social networking service are watching 370 years of video a day, while talkshow hosts seem to be getting the bug for live-tweeting
- “It was this sense of where TV used to be seen as a wave where you just sit and it crashes over you for an hour and you’re consumed, now there’s a sense that it’s actually made up of particles, like light.
- “And each one of these particles can become a bigger moment on Twitter, on social, because everybody will gather around that, and it will be talked about and referenced again and again.”
This article is basically talking about how social media apps such as twitter and periscope has had a huge impact on the TV industry. In addition, it goes on to compare the amount of videos people consumed online im comparison to the amount of tv consumed
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