The New York Times Opinion Department uses Periscope for daily public chats with their writers.

Apparently unlike Zoom or other chat programs, Periscope is used to GO LIVE in the moment and not for scheduled broadcasts.

The Times goes live every weekday at 1 PM EST, yet by the time I get the push announcement the program has already started and I am joining late.

There is no schedule posted anywhere of which writer will be going live on any given day. There is no FIXED URL LINK that always takes me to the NYT channel.

I don't know if each host uses their own Twitter account to chat or they share a single corporate account.

So if a writer goes live that I do not follow, I will miss that push announcement.

If Twitter is trying to run the equivilant of a streaming live network (a la NBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, HULU, YouTube LIVE, etc.), why isn't there a SINGLE CHANNEL for the New York Times Opinion stream with a SINGLE URL that I can click on every day to watch that days broadcast LIVE at is scheduled time?

The Customer Support Staff at the NYT is useless. They just point their collective corporate figer at Twitter and Periscope.

There is no customer support at Twitter for questions like this.

Frankly, I wish the NYT would stop using Periscope and use Zoom or Eventbrite or Citrix or Microsoft that allow PRE-SCHEDULED LIVE broadcasts with URL links disseminated through multiple methods in advance.

Periscope seems more suited to spur of the moment "Hey, kids, let's go LIVE right now" the way Facebook or Snapchat does.