Periscope is the mobile livestreaming app everyone’s talking about. And this is what happens if you do everything the commenters suggest.
Matthew Tucker / BuzzFeed
Everyone's talking about it. Well, they are if "everyone" means tech people in Silicon Valley and media people in New York and London, many of whom see mobile livestreaming as the hottest trend of 2015.
If last year was all about Vine and Instagram – short, tightly-edited snippets of video – this year is about broadcasting live from your kitchen, telling random strangers what's in your fridge.
Last week when I first tried Periscope, lots of people in the comments told me where to go for lunch. (I went to Pret, obviously). But then they started asking me to do weird stuff as well.
Patrick Smith / BuzzFeed
So on Monday, I decided to hit the streets of London armed with an iPhone, a selfie stick and a GoPro camera, to see what would happen if we all actually did the things people on Periscope asked us to do – and, in the process, to work out whether the app is just a fad or could actually become part of our lives.
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