Birdseye view: Periscope to allow drone streams

Ever wondered what a city looks like from above in real time? Or wanted to share your drone footage live from the Wild Atlantic Way? Periscope is set to offer drone users the ability to live stream their aerial footage direct to its platform, supporting DJI's drones initially.

The company, which is owned by Twitter, will roll out the new function in the coming weeks, alongside a new search function to find broadcasts according to title and topic, and the ability to save broadcasts beyond the current 24-hour cutoff.

Periscope began a public beta last week to test the save function. When it is rolled out to users generally, the default setting will be to automatically save live streams, along with comments.

“Our goal is to give you full control of your broadcasts. Soon, your broadcasts will be automatically saved on Periscope and Twitter with comments and hearts,” the company said in a blog post. “Should you change your mind, you can still delete your broadcasts at any time in the post-broadcast screen or in your profile. And, for those of you who still want your broadcasts to be removed after 24 hours, you can easily configure that in your account settings.”

The company is hoping the new search settings will allow people to find broadcasts that interest them, with search topics including travel, music, food and more. Like Twitter and Facebook, the service is using hashtags to create searchable topics.