Periscope Live Video Streaming Reviews

by Hollythebird

I reached out along with a friend to periscope through e-mail and twitter about a pressing issue in periscope. Periscope doesn’t alert you who has screenshotted or screenrecorded you. It only shows that someone did it. I reached out to periscope help to bring this to their attention, telling them that women are finding screenshots of themselves online because of this, telling them this has become a safety issue. I got the canned response of “Hi, we don't have plans to show who is taking screenshots in broadcasts, but we'll certainly communicate your feedback to our team. Thanks for reaching out about this.” The customer support/periscope team doesn’t take interest in user safety and are far behind technologically speaking. Snapchat alerts you who screenshots, periscope still is behind, and doesn’t care because they just want the money. Do yourself the favor and find another app that does show you and cares about the safety of their users.

by Ninjasavant

The concept of PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming is a natural evolution of the ego driven internet. But the free-for-all format with no obvious oversight or content filtering has turned PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming into a nightmare of drug use, porn, “prophets”, and child exploitation. You read that last part right.

A big portion of the streaming community is shady sites streaming porn on loop and women teasing the camera with PayPal links in their bio. Kids tend to imitate what they see and increasingly there are girls as obviously young as 13 doing the same while a group of sick predators goad them on. Periscope is a pedophiles dream and a parents nightmare.

PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming relies on community policing but there’s only so far that can go. And the incident needs to happen to be reported. There needs to be stricter oversight and an overhaul on child safety before this platform can be viable.

by Briantboss97

So it’s come to my attention recently that periscope doesn’t have the feature that tells you that someone is screen recording or shows you the person who screen shots. It’s a huge safety risk for people and it’s also super creeping when you start seeing your face on sites. PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming is great but it really needs some improvement. They should add a feature where if someone was to screen shot you’d be able to see who the person is. Pretty much like what Snapchat does when someone screen shots or screen records it informs the streamer that this certain someone is taking screen shots. I’ve emailed them and they hit me with a ridiculous response saying they have any plans for adding such a feature. Cause they wanna protect all the creeps. Anyways stay safe

by Thisoneisnogoodplznoupdate

Periscope needs to have a better reporting system they is a group of men with fake pictures getting girls as young as 9 to do sexual acts in private groups. These accounts need to be able to get reported. I noticed the system in place for reporting does not work. These men report comments of us trying to warn girls not to use PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming and PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming comment bans us. There should be a system in place that would not let new accounts to be added to private groups until they had enough hearts or something like that maybe a leveling system so these young girls could be safe. And also allow accounts to just report that try to get young girl to do groups that should not be on PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming in the first. That is a big problem with any live steaming app.

by ZippityDont

Periscope brought me the world and introduced me to new friends. Wonderful.

But PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming has persistent issues that customer support seems to dismiss out of hand.
•Accessibility - The interface is abysmal for anyone with (or without) visual impairment. Why oh why are commenters names in a gray colored font? Why? People use PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming outside, in the sun much of the time. Broadcasters have trouble reading their commenters names. It’s why I stopped broadcasting. Use a black font!!! The same is the case for profile pages. Why all the grayed-out fonts? What’s the purpose? To make it harder to read?
•You, for some reason, blocked/deleted my 3yr old account without so much as an explanation. I suspect it was bands of political trolls filing false reports. Three years of Scopes, followers, friends, and hearts - gone. All attempts to contact you went unanswered. Had to create new account.
•Tech glitches- Can’t see comments when viewing on Twitter. Tapping to correct a comment before sending collapses the keyboard
•Your inability to control sex bots. Everyday I must block daily2-3 of them.
•Not allowing us to see ALL our followers or commenters. Why?

Periscope could be a great app but with these issues it’s not possible. Hire a good sensitive UI team, fix accessibility issues, all I’ll rethink my rating
AND GIVE ME MY OLD ACCOUNT BACK‼️

by JleeSon

Yup worth 5 but there has been this really bugging bug during the streams. Ok..

PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming launches well. Good. Scrolling is ok.

But now there has been this new bug that wasn’t bugging before during live streams with broadcasters.

When I tap to go into someone’s live cast, the stream now starts this crazy glitch that won’t stop or settle down. It makes the broadcaster start shaking back and forth as if he or she is mutating like the agents in the matrix.. get it?

The stream starts to shake making them look like that— they shake back and forth SO FAST that it looks like 3 of them. Understand?

It’s rare now to tap on someone who’s live and get a stream that’s running fine without that glitch and yes; extremely annoying. If you know of it, I hope that you’re working to make that go away like now. 🤨🙂

If not then now you know but I think you should’ve heard of this bug before. Get the streams running smoothly again. Peace. It’s 2 stars because I have to chat now with a broadcaster I’m following while having to look at them as if they’re mutating lol. Seriously.

by GimmeDatThang

• Periscope via the Twitter Apple TV app. I just wish there were more features on the tv app like there is to the phone app. I would love to give stars, I would love to type in a question, etc in the tv app. But the tv app has a spinning globe UI feature which is really nice. It needs to be updated control wise. It it’s my favorite feature.

• The stand alone Periscope app terrible for discovery. Content is organized more by weird uninteresting topics instead of by country or people you follow. And most of the videos that have recently stopped broadcasting still show up as “offline”. Once a video has stopped streaming get rid of it immediately fill the space with a new one along the lines of the users preferences. I think Twitter should move the earth globe UI to the main stand alone Periscope app.

In all it’s a cool app just wish it wasn’t so schizophrenic, and that it had a more modern and tighter UI experience.

by Jaye2kay

The video quality has gotten better but my main issue is the sound and rewinding for older streams. When watching an old video every 20+ seconds there is a pause in the sound which is extremely annoying and makes me not want to use PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming anymore. Also, the comments sometimes appear before what the person says. For example, the person is talking about something that happened in childhood but a comment, with specific details, appears before that part of the stream begins. Additionally, if I rewind the video the comments are even more out of sync as well as the fact that what the person was saying in the first 5 minutes is now repeating at minute 30. Please fix this.

by Tonybugia

It's a great ap to speak to people from all over the world, HOWEVER, kids should absolutely not be using PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming. Also when you stream yourself it's almost guaranteed that you will get "hecklers" either saying racist remarks or other completely inappropriate things. It needs to be set up so that if you get booted maybe 3 times total you get completed banned from using the ap, as in you phone number or IP address should be banned from using the ap. There are a lot of people who just sit there all day long and go from room to room getting banned by different people for being annoying. Why are you letting them ruin PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming????

by Avidanimefan

It’s a great app. Unfortunately nazis and pedophiles run rampant on there. They thrive in communities like this with lax moderation to make it worse many children use PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming and adults like to take advantage of them.

This is very disturbing and I wish that there was a way to moderate or log these creepers and report them to the appropriate authorities.

I also wish that you would add an option to report racist or hate based content as many of the people who broadcast there regularly preach messages of hatred based on gender and race. Luckily these two problems are in the minority but they are very serious problems that I hope the developers of PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming address.

by SuzyQ4JC

Periscope is easy 2 use & opens a whole new world of interactive media to the user.
U can discuss various issues on your mind, go to places & c things u maybe couldn’t otherwise, learn new things about other people & their culture & heritage, listen to musical artists, watch an artist create, join a cooking scope,a breaking news scope, have conversations & consider other viewpoints, all kinds great things to do.
There is sure 2 b a scope u will enjoy going on in PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming somewhere anytime, day or night.
This is great to learn about so many things in the world.
It connects people n a way no other app I have ever used has been able to.
The negative is that, as other types of social media tend to do, I c it can unfairly target Conservative or Christian viewpoints. Also 2 many copy bots.
As with any social media use, use common sense & protect yourself & your identity.
I also wouldn’t suggest a child 2 b involved in PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming without direct supervision by their parent or guardian.
Clean the issue of unfair targeting of viewpoints & the copy-bot issue up & I’ll give it 5 stars.

by Daya000

PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming is so fun and my favorite live app. Most other live apps are complete porn 24/7, at least this one is only ~20% porn. I just wish that my location could be less specific. I post live videos often, but I’m a young girl. And I really wish my location didn’t show almost exactly on my house. There are creeps on here who could find me. I also don’t want to not show my location in general though because I want friends nearby to find me. Maybe if there was another choice, like to just show you in what city you’re in, thank youuu

by Katya20707

We want to be able to comment like everyone else, besides listening, and when you have to use the keyboard, you can’t comment in a timely manner. Only a certain amount of words at a time can be dictated, during which time the stream completely cut out, and after finishing any dictation, the sound doesn’t come back, such that you have to close out of PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming , relaunch, find your broadcast, and re-enter, by which time I might have missed anything anyone said to what I said. Please fix!

by Testanomical

Music producer here. I utilize Twitter over Instagram for my networking and by far am completely satisfied on how periscope gets good reach and connects me with my current and future fan base. Easy to set up streaming on the PC with OBS and great when you are on the go! Since using for the past year, I have gained about 500+ followers for my craft and the algorithm for alerting people that I’m live is fantastic. One feature that is really dope is the guest option so when I am collaborating with another producer, we can both be on stream communicating and at the same time keeping the viewers in the know. Again great app and would definitely recommend over any other streaming platform!

by Yikbfzb

There are many live streams but Periscope is unique! Not really a fan of IG Live from what I can see Periscope is still better.
One request I really feel Periscope just consider especially now that we have audio broadcasts is allowing the video to still play in the background even when you exit PeriscopeLiveVideoStreaming the way podcasts do on your phone. It’s annoying to not be able to multitask and have to only keep the periscope app open to listen to content on there. Also if there would be a better way to block phone calls and texts from disrupting the video so it doesn’t end before you’re finished.