My First White House Meerkat, And Why I’ll Be Using Periscope Next Time

Posted by | March 26, 2015 17:00 | Filed under: Contributors Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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There’s a battle shaping up between competing live Twitter video services Meerkat, which has a several-week head start in usage and buzz, and Periscope, the just-released app from Twitter. Both applications allow users (of iPads and iPhones) to stream live video to Twitter users, although Periscope says an Android version is on the way.

At Wednesday’s White House daily briefing, I impulsively set out to Meerkast the entire briefing live, and it was a blast. I wasn’t the first White House reporter to do this, a distinction that belongs to NBC News’ Kasie Hunt, who also created a lot of buzz by Meerkatting an interview with Press Secretary Josh Earnest last week.

Still, I do believe I’m the first non-broadcast journalist to do so, and definitely the first to offer viewers wraparound coverage of the pre-and-post-briefing experience. It just so happens that when my Verizon Galaxy tablet went on the blink, the only replacement available was an iPad Air, or I would never have been within a mile of an Apple device, but with all the buzz about Meerkat, the opportunity was too good to pass up. The app itself is ridiculously simple to use, so with the click of one button, I was on the air.

Since White House briefings are streamed live on WhiteHouse.gov (and many other places), I set out to give my viewers an experience that they wouldn’t get anywhere else…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

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