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There's a typo in your URL.

I think, it's pretty tough to compete with Twitter. Why? Because people see Twitter already as a micro-journalism platform and live-streaming is more or less live-journalism. Or at least, this is one way to use it and this helps to gain a lot of traction fast.

I never tried any live streaming. If I were to start today, I'd use the platform with the most users and least effort to get into. Which is probably going to be Periscope.

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Thanks WA. Autocorrect can still bite you!

I agree that it is tough to compete with twitter. They have money and a huge reach. Periscope will probably get some advantage when it comes to integration with Twitter.

But there are also downsides to being tied to twitter. For example, I don't expect Periscope to every integrate with Facebook or any other competing platform. Upclose already works with Facebook.

I'm not trying to say that this is going to be easy. I'm just saying that don't count us out yet.

I tried periscope and just now upclose.me. I like that you can I think stream to the web whereas periscope seems app only. Though upclose is not working for me after a minute or so - I'm on a slow connection in Vietnam though.

Hi Tim, video streaming usually needs a good internet connection. But with upclose, you should still be able to stream reliably to people near you, as we use a peer-to-peer streaming solution.

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