The social network Twitter announced on Tuesday that it will close the application to broadcast live video Periscope in March 2021, considering that has become “unsustainable” because of the drop in the number of users in recent years.
“The truth is that the Periscope application is in an unsustainable state of maintenance, and has been for quite some time. In recent years, we’ve seen a user drop and we know that the cost of maintaining it will increase as time goes by, “they said in a statement from Twitter, which acquired that application in 2015.
Some personal news: the Periscope app will be going away next year. We’re here to say goodbye. ????
We appreciate all the support, learnings, and broadcasts from our vibrant creator community. More on our difficult decision to discontinue the app: https://t.co/jZWjDlsRHk (1/2) pic.twitter.com/Kfgvocq31O
— Periscope (@PeriscopeCo) December 15, 2020
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Periscope performances, which saw its heyday in the mid-1990s, are gone integrating into the Twitter application itself gradually, in services such as Twitter Live, with which the first became expendable.
In the coming days, it will no longer be possible to create new accounts on Periscope, and in March 2021 the application will no longer be available in virtual stores. Until then, Internet users who so wish may download a copy of their videos and data to keep them.
The Blue Bird Company bought the standalone app from microblogging in 2015 to allow its users to do streaming live video with a mobile phone.
The videos then became available for viewing both live and during the 24 hours that followed the recording.
When a user made a broadcast, their followers received a notification and when accessing the video they could do live commentary and also indicate that they liked by sending hearts to the author.
The user could choose if his broadcast was accessible to all his followers or limit your access to a specific number of people.
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