Twitter Is Shutting Down Its Periscope Apps

Twitter has announced that it'll be shutting down Periscope as a service, with the company set to discontinue the Periscope applications by March 2021. The Verge reports: Twitter will, however, continue to offer live video streaming through its integrated Twitter Live feature within the main Twitter app. "The Periscope app is in an unsustainable maintenance-mode state, and has been for a while," the company explained in a blog post. "Over the past couple of years, we've seen declining usage and know that the cost to support the app will only continue to go up over time."

While Periscope won't be fully shut down until March, the company is already blocking any new account signups starting in the latest update to the apps, which is rolling out today. Users will have the chance to download an archive of both their Periscope videos and their data before the app is shuttered next year. Additionally, the Periscope website will remain active to serve as a "read-only archive of public broadcasts." Periscope will also be "relaxing our requirements" for users to apply to become "Super Broadcasters," the company's term for select users who are given the opportunity to cash out tips given to them by followers. Broadcasters will have until April 30th, 2021, to finish cashing out their tips.

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[Luthair]

did I forget Twitter bought them I forgot they ever existed, so seems a reasonable choice to shut them down.

Also a good idea...

[Baloo Uriza]

...would be to just shut down Twitter. Between Trump existing on Twitter, and ActivityPub gaining steam, Twitter's just Diet Parler. That's not a good thing anybody needs.

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[gijoel]

to shut down Parler the beloved app of mgtows, transphobics, and violent wingnuts everywhere [wehuntedthemammoth.com]. Also it's not as FREEZE PEACH as you think it is. [theconversation.com]

From the article;

Parler’s community guidelines prohibit a range of content including spam, terrorism, unsolicited ads, defamation, blackmail, bribery and criminal behaviour. Although there are no explicit rules against hate speech, there are policies against “fighting words” and “threats of harm”. This includes “a threat of o

Internet sewers

[Baloo Uriza]

That doesn't really change the fact that they exist to be the internet's sewer. The fact the people behind it are trying to brand and sell what comes out of the sewer just makes them the internet version of bottled raw water [wikipedia.org] peddlers.

Twitter will prolly shut down entirely

[Mr. Dollar Ton]

come January 21, 2020.