This article explains how to live stream on Twitter using the iOS and Android versions of the Twitter app. Your followers and the general public can see your stream both in progress and later via an optional Twitter video. Similar to live streaming on Instagram, Twitter users can interact with live broadcasts by typing a message in chat or using a heart emoji.
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How to Start Live Stream on Twitter
You can start a live stream from the official Twitter app for iOS and Android devices. You require a cellular or Wi-Fi signal is and your account must be public. If you have protected Twitter account, you will not be able to live stream. If there is a lock icon next to your username, go to Settings & privacy > Privacy & security in the Twitter app and change your Protect your Tweets by disabling your account.
- Open the Twitter app on your iOS or Android device and tap . create (feather and plus sign).
- Tap the icon. Tap the camera icon and then Live.
- You will need to grant access to Twitter to use your device’s camera and microphone to continue.
- Tap Add location and choose your preferred location for Twitter live stream. This location information is using for making your broadcast more discoverable to users in the Twitter and Periscope apps.
- Touching What’s going on? and type the text you want to go with your live stream. This could be the title of your post or a casual message to your followers encouraging them to come. Adding keywords and hashtags to your description will help your tweet show up in Twitter searches.
- Tap Go Live to start your Twitter live stream right away. When broadcasting on Twitter, you can use the three buttons in the upper-right corner to turn your flash on or off, switch cameras, and mute or unmute your microphone, respectively. You can also tap the icons in the lower right corner to see who your viewers are.
- When you’re ready to end your live stream on Twitter, click Stop in the top left corner.
- A confirmation option will open. Tap Stop Broadcast to confirm the end of your live stream or Cancel to continue streaming.
What Happens to Past Twitter Live Streams?
When you finish broadcasting with the Twitter app, a recording of your live broadcast is saved to Twitter and is available for rewatching from the first broadcast’s tweet on demand. You can edit a recorded live stream by tapping the video within the tweet and then tapping . Edit Post. From here you can change the title of your stream and even edit the start and end points by selecting specific points on the video timeline. Once you’ve made all your adjustments, click Save Changes to lock them. Changes made to a recorded Twitter live stream can take about 15 minutes to propagate on the social network. To delete a previous Twitter live broadcast, all you have to do is delete the tweet containing the video. This will delete the video on both Twitter and Periscope. Deleting a past live stream from the Periscope app will not delete it on Twitter.
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How to Connect Twitter and Periscope
The Twitter live streaming feature is powered by Periscope, a separate service dedicated solely to streaming videos. While the Periscope live video service is what makes streaming on Twitter possible, the Periscope app is not required to start a broadcast from Twitter, so it doesn’t need to be downloaded to your smart device. All this connecting happens behind the scenes and is not something the average user should worry about. Periscope accounts are the same as Twitter accounts, despite different app names; following one user will follow them in another. Periscope live streams can also a broadcast on Twitter and vice versa. While the Periscope live streaming app isn’t required for streaming from Twitter, it can be useful for finding other live streams to watch because of its advanced search and discovery features.
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