14 DAY TRIAL // The Internet has always been a fast-moving medium with services evolving at a rapid pace and information available almost instantaneously. Twitter has raised the stakes even higher from the rate at which it's gathering new users to the speed at which the information spreads throughout the ecosystem. This is true for services and apps catering to the microblogging platform with desktop clients constantly one-upping each other. Even so, having a new product ready in less than ten days is impressive but this is just what live streaming provider Livestream has managed, launching a new Twitter broadcasting system called TwitCam.
Justin.TV, one of the biggest players in the fiercely competitive live streaming market, announced a new product called CamTweet ten days ago, which allows Twitter users to easily set up a broadcast and then share it with their followers. But while CamTweet has just been launched in private beta, Livestream is already boasting a working product with TwitCam working pretty much the same.
TwitCam was built using Livestream's new set of APIs, which haven't been made public yet, and is dead simple to use although it could use a little more work. All you have to do is log in with your Twitter credentials, hit the broadcast button and, assuming you have your webcam set up, you're good to go. It doesn't support OAuth yet but that should change in the future. One of the best features though is that any comments from other users are redirected automatically and also posted on their Twitter streams.
It doesn't get any simpler than this and TwitCam doesn't even require an account with Livestream. While it's pretty obvious that the streaming provider rushed to be the first to offer this functionality the product looks solid albeit a little feature-lacking. However, this is only the first release, so expect a lot more features as the battle heats up.