Periscope for iOS lets you mute notifications among many new features

Periscope on iOS gets a significant update adding a slew of useful features for its users. The Twitter-owned app now lets you mute notifications from specific users. You just need to head to their profile to turn off notifications for them. The video broadcasting app also now supports Handoff. It also has a new refreshed global feed. This feed shows you live streams from around the world that you might find interesting. Periscope updated this to show you broadcasts you might enjoy and now you can even filter suggested streams by languages. If you like seeing stats, the app now also shows you broadcast stats of your past streams. Before you could only see this after you finish a broadcast.

Source: Periscope | Via: 9to5Mac | Download: Apple App Store (Free)

Canadian streaming video app Yeplive aims to improve on the experience offered by competitors

Meerkat and Periscope have been popular video streaming apps but they wiill soon be joined by Canadian made Yeplive which promises a range of features that its competitors still have to offer.

Yeplive has more features that reviewers of both apps have voiced that they want to see,  (see above chart). The biggest featrues are;

• Sharing to all popular social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and G+ (Periscope and Meerkat are chained to Twitter)
• Videos are archived in each user's personal profile - so you can keep your moments
• Yeplive is location centric so you can discover what live events are happening around you, or globally in places you care about 

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Periscope comes to Android

If you're runing an Android device with KitKat 4.4 or later and wish to subject or regale your Twitter followers to livestreaming, you can do so using the Periscope app that's just been rolled out for Android. Check it out here. Periscope broke ground on iOS a few months ago and became the alternative to Meerkat, the Android app features some Material Design touches as well as Android specific controls.

Periscope will be coming to Android

Twitter recently launched Periscope on iOS. And people have been asking the company if they had any plans on bringing it to Android. Well, according to a blog post from the development team, that is happening. When this will happen isn't certain yet. But they are working on it.  

If you don't know what Periscope is, it's an app that lets you broadcast live video streams from your mobile devices. People can also watch what you're streaming right from their mobile gadgets. Periscope allows users to send messages and chat while a live stream is ongoing. Twitter launched Periscope to compete with Meerkat, an app with a similar function that was gaining traction on Twitter's platform. 

Source: Ubergizmo