article_snippet: The battle for live streaming smartphone video heated up Thursday as Twitter launched Twitter Periscope application, taking on fast-rising online rival Meerkat.
article_snippet: And Android version is in the works, Twitter said.
article_snippet: The new app 'lets you share and experience live video from your mobile phone' and is 'a perfect complement to Twitter, which is why we acquired the company in January,' Twitter's Kevin Weil said in a blog post.
article_snippet: Meerkat effectively turns your phone into a portable webcam and lets you live stream whatever you point your handset's camera towards.
article_snippet: your handset's camera has a simple premise: press the Stream button, point the phone's camera at a scene and a link to stream is automatically tweeted from a connected account .