There are a few ways you can send out live video feeds over Twitter right now. The most obvious is just take a service like Justin.tv, shorten your live stream URL, and tweet it out. But there’s no real easy-to-use seamless way of doing it. That’s what Camtweet, a new side project of Justin.tv launching today at our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp, wants to be.
Camtweet looks kind of like what the various photo and video sharing sites that are tied to Twitter currently look like, except it has a big live video box in the center. Below that is the place where you chat to others who are watching in your Camtweet (or Justin.tv — the videos will reside on both) room. And these messages are tweeted out with a link to bring people back to the room. Then when they login with their Twitter credentials and chat with you on the page, their messages are tweeted out too.
The interface is dead simple, and it seems like a good idea if Justin.tv can get some big name Twitter users to use it. We’ll start seeing tweets flying around with links back to hot Camtweet live video chats, which some users may not like, but should mean huge traffic for Camtweet.
The closest thing to this so far has been Qik which does live video from mobile devices and can easily be set up to auto-tweet out when recordings start. The difference is that first of all this is meant for live video from the desktop, not a mobile device, and second, is the aforementioned huge potential for streams to go viral since chat is run through Twitter (with links back to Camtweet) as well. And Qik is being slightly held back by the fact that Apple and/or AT&T will not allow its app (or any other app the sends out live video from the iPhone) into the App Store.
As I mentioned, all of this video will also reside back on Justin.tv’s main site, where it will be archived as well.
Here’s a video of the demo of Camtweet from the Real-Time Stream Event:
Why do i need camtweet when i do the same thing with a added real time live chat with ustream? They are only trying to copy other peoples sites now Camtweet is nothing but a JTV stream with a social stream for twitter.. I can more by streaming with ustream and its supported on there site not a 3th party site..
Camtweet is as easy as it gets. You just type in your twitter username / password and click broadcast.
No setup required.
Ustream has had the oneclick Tweet for…oh, about a year.
Nothing exciting or new here Techcrunch.
Errr… but you can’t on Ustream.
Ustream sucks – Fireman get with the program.
You can stream tweets directly on JTV too, can’t you? They just don’t default to twitter for comments… most people chat.
Ustream has had this functionality for a year.
JTV is a very bad site for teens:
http://news.cne...e-on-justin-tv/
They also make money from porn as Techcrunch wrote a few weeks ago:
http://www.tech...ries-into-cash/
Ustream? I thought they went out of business already? It can only be a matter of time from what I’ve been hearing…
haha, yet right.
JTV is running out of cash. This idea completely sucks.
Thanks for the opportunity to present at the CrunchUp today.
I love Ustream but I heard that they are getting sued – sucks!
And how is this a advantage over a service like Tinychat?
I see no way for tweeting into the service on tinychat. The key is simplicity, tinychat doesn’t have that.
Sweet! I will be for sure trying this out! Nice job JTV!
EPIC edition to justin.tv. Makes it MUCH easier to share my lifecasting channel with twitter followers that don’t regularly go to justin.tv. I love it.
Forwarding everything you say in a chat room to twitter is a good way to lose followers. The least they could do is make them @replies.
This concept is just a gimmick
Kind of like sticking a camera on your head..
great work, JTV!
This is very awesome!
!hi5 JTV!
Mark Vaughn
Cool idea
I’m not sure I understand, the point is to simply go to another TLD? They need an API and a deal with Tweetdeck.
P.S. The shilling and bickering above (often under pseudonyms, though there are transparent JTV fans) is absurd. Neither of these 2 companies come out looking good doing that.
P.P.S QIK works fine with the iPhone, and if it doesn’t work with your iPhone, you don’t count anyway.
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