Facebook Starts Rolling Out Live Video Streaming to Everyone

In an attempt of effort to take on Twitter's Periscope, Facebook is launch to give all of its users the ability to broadcast live video to their friends and followers.

Facebook is now run and rolling the feature out to everyone inside its flagship app. Starting with a small test today, Facebook users will be able to use a redesigned status menu to select "live video."

On Dec 3, Facebook turned on live video streaming for a small subset of its US-based users on iPhones, bringing a live video broadcast button to their status update form. Live video streams automatically appear in their friends' Facebook news feeds, and broadcasts that have concluded are saved in the timeline like any other video.

Users will see a "live video icon" in their status update area. They can write a description and choose who they want to see the broadcast such as just friends or the public. The number of live viewers, names of friends tuning in and a real-time stream of comments will also be shown. The video will then be saved on their timeline once the live stream ends.

Now when they want go to share a photo using the app, they will see their recent pictures organized based on the time and place that they took them. With a few taps, they can select the photos they want to share, arrange them into grids, give them a title and post them. For now they can only create them on iPhone; Android support is coming next year. But the collages can be viewed on any device, Facebook says.

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