Facebook Live was extended to verified pages in December 2015, and users started getting access to the feature via desktops and laptops as early as last September. Starting Wednesday, it is available globally.
Product manager Erin Connolly and engineering manager Jeff Hendy said in a Newsroom post that users can click “Live Video” from the top of their News Feeds or Timelines, and then add descriptions and determine who will be able to see their livestreams.
Connolly and Hendy mentioned question-and-answer sessions, vlogs, tutorials and basically any broadcasts by users not on the move as possible uses for Facebook Live via desktop, but a group they touched on later in their post, gamers, may be the ripest audience for this feature.
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