Rumors confirmed: Twitter will shutdown Periscope in 2021

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A few days ago Twitter confirmed that it had bought the Squad company, a startup that allowed share your screen with multiple people at the same time while sharing a video call. And when I say allowed, it is past, because it took a day to close the application after acquiring it.

As is usual in this type of operation, what Twitter does with this company is unknown, but if it has bought it, it will be because it intends to integrate this functionality within Twitter, since the co-founders of Squad have become part of the Twitter staff.

A few days after announcing the purchase and subsequent closure of Squad, Twitter has announced that it will also shut down Periscope, a company that Twitter bought in 2015, and that allowed live broadcasts through the social network.

However, as time passed and Twitter integrated Periscope within the application The decline of this began, a decline that has lasted until now, and due to high maintenance costs and low profitability, the company has decided that it is time to end it.

Twitter knew for a long time that Periscope had its days numbered, and in recent years it has gone incorporating many of the functions available on this platform to Twitter. Periscope will be removed from the app stores in March 2021 and it will stop working although the public videos will be available to everyone who visits its website.

All users who want download all videos that they have created for this platform will be able to do so until closing time, so if you are one of those affected by this decision you should start looking for other alternatives for your transmissions, either through YouTube, Facebook or Twitch without going any further. and download all the content you have created.


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