In my opinion, it's a chaser's duty to report what they see in the interest of protection of life and property. Through the years the means by which eminent threat reporting has been accomplished has gone from amatuer radio and landline call-ins, to cellphones and streaming video, to apps like mPing and instagram.
The latest disruptive technology in the social space could be the next viable tool for chasers/spotters: Periscope and Meerkat.
The two apps are not identical, but they serve the same basic function: They stream video straight from your phone to the Internet. You open the smartphone app and start a broadcast. Other people using the app or who tune into your broadcast mid-stream, and watch and listen along live. Viewers can "like" what they see and submit comments that pop up in real time on the screen. Web viewing is possible too from a link supplied to your Twitter account. Periscope, launched by Twitter last Thursday, offers an optional replay button for streams that have ended; Meerkat streams vanish.
So give these a try and consider: will a service like this be a viable way to report and stream a live severe weather event?
The latest disruptive technology in the social space could be the next viable tool for chasers/spotters: Periscope and Meerkat.
The two apps are not identical, but they serve the same basic function: They stream video straight from your phone to the Internet. You open the smartphone app and start a broadcast. Other people using the app or who tune into your broadcast mid-stream, and watch and listen along live. Viewers can "like" what they see and submit comments that pop up in real time on the screen. Web viewing is possible too from a link supplied to your Twitter account. Periscope, launched by Twitter last Thursday, offers an optional replay button for streams that have ended; Meerkat streams vanish.
So give these a try and consider: will a service like this be a viable way to report and stream a live severe weather event?