Twitter announced that it will phase out Periscope, the live-streaming video app it bought more than five years ago, by March 2021. Twitter bought the startup behind Periscope in January 2015 in a ...

Twitter, which owns the app, announced the news in a message posted on its website on Tuesday, December 15. The social media company said that Periscope had seen a drop in users, adding that most of ...

Twitter users can now start streaming live video right from within the service’s mobile apps, courtesy of Periscope: Periscope and Twitter announced a closer integration of the two services Wednesday ...

Get ready to see a lot more live video on Twitter. More than a year after acquiring Periscope, the platform is finally making live streaming an official part of its app. Twitter was updated Wednesday ...

Download Periscope, Twitter's just-launched live video-streaming app, and you'll find people broadcasting all sorts of mundane stuff: waiting for AT&T to fix their wiring, getting out of bed in ...

Meerkat has enjoyed over a month of dominance in the streaming-video category, but Twitter's release of Periscope has changed all that. Here's why. Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years.

The live streaming app aims to convert Meerkat users. Screengrabs of Periscope are pictured. Twitter, Inc. — -- Everyone is now a reality star -- if they want to be. Twitter launched its ...

Taking a page out of Facebook’s playbook, Twitter announced today it’s introducing “live, interactive 360 videos.” The 360-degree video capability is also rolling out on Periscope, the live-streaming ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Twitter plans to shutter its Periscope app, the company announced Tuesday. Twitter will discontinue the Periscope mobile app by March 2021 and ...

Twitter’s recently launched “Explore” section will now feature live videos sourced from Periscope within its “Top Trends,” the company announced yesterday. The move will further integrate Twitter’s ...

Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years. He is the senior editor in charge of iOS software and has become an expert reviewer of the software that runs on each new Apple device. He now spends ...