Periscope will shut down by March, Twitter confirms – By Brian Heater (Techcrunch) / Dec 15 2020
Following recent reports, Periscope announced today that it will end operations as a standalone app by March 2021. The Twitter -owned company referred to its current operations as “unsustainable” in an open letter posted today. It also cited a decline in usage in recent years as a driving factor.
“Leaving it in its current state isn’t doing right by the current and former Periscope community or by Twitter,” the company noted.
Twitter, which acquired the livestreaming app back in 2015, has been building out its own video offerings in recent months, rendering much of Periscope’s features redundant as a standalone app. A line of code that popped up in the Twitter app last week appeared to point to periscope’s eventual closure. At the time, however, Twitter refused to comment.
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