Twitter announces live 360º video

One more step in the journey of Twitter for going back to being the social network it was, before many of its young people Users will be switched to Snapchat and Facebook and Instagram join forces to form the definitive 2.0 conglomerate. Very recently, at the beginning of the month, the social network led by Jack Dorsey surprised us with the news that Periscope was stopping »exist», at least as an external application: now, it would simply be limited to developing the streaming video, directly, from the website and application of Twitter. One more step in the usability of the microblogging tool that, regardless of who it weighs, has known better times.

Following in the wake of streaming video, Twitter has just announced that it will support live 360º video, Periscope360, a move similar to that already offered by its immediate competitor Facebook about two weeks ago. Alex Pettit, very active user of the old Periscope, on his account Twitter, has offered the public a live 360º video so that we could all check its operation, performance , fluidity and image quality.

360 Sunset in Florida. First ever Periscope360 with @Brandee_Anthony https://t.co/AZWbnnT15S

”” Alex Pettitt (@Alexpettitt) December 28, 2016

In the video we can see how Alex walks along Sunset Boulevardwhile we are witnesses in 360 degrees If we are in front of the PC screen, we simply have to mark a point with the mouse and slide the screen to see the circle full image. If we are in front of our smartphone, remember that you simply have to move the screen through the space and you will also have a wide panoramic view of what the video in 360º of Alex Pettit is offering you.

This exciting new modality of streaming is only available to a few chosen by the company itself, like the itself Alex Pettit Over the next few weeks, Twitter will be releasing this new update so we can all broadcast 360º videos and thus make broadcasts even more immersive.A concert, a press conference, a trip to the mountains, a walk through the typical fair in your city... Any event that comes to mind can now be enjoyed even better with the possibility of live 360º video thatTwitter will offer you in the coming weeks. A new step in the world of virtual reality that, apparently, is here to stay.

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After the massive loss of users suffered by the company of Jack Dorsey in the last year. In February of this year, which is now ending, Twitter suffered the first decline in active users in its entire history. From 307 they went to 305 million active users Back then they claimed that the company was going to focus their efforts on the field of video, perhaps alluding to the typical, but no less true, »a picture is worth a thousand words».Perhaps, to make Twitter attractive to the general public, at the beginning of the years it created the "moments" section and some time ago, a total redesign of its interface that brought it dangerously close to Facebook, which earned it quite a bit of criticism. Now, with the live 360º video transmission it will try to recover those two million users that fell by the wayside.