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Periscope App Officially Shutting Down After Today

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Twitter-owned app Periscope today announced that its dedicated app for the live video service will be shut down as of today. In a tweet, Periscope said that today is the last day that the Periscope app will be available.

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Periscope first announced its planned shutdown in December of 2020, and said that the app was being shuttered because most of the Periscope functionality has now transitioned to the Twitter app.

The Periscope app was still available un an "unsustainable maintenance-mode state" with declining usage and rising costs, and the Periscope team said that leaving the app as is wasn't "doing right by the current and former Periscope community or by Twitter."


Periscope's core capabilities are available through Twitter, and the app has not allowed new account creation since last year. Broadcasts shared to Twitter will be available as replays, and all Periscope users will be able download an archive of broadcasts and data.

With the Periscope app gone, people will be able to broadcast using Twitter Live within the compose view by tapping on the in-app camera option. Brands, publishers, and creators can go live using Media Studio.

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I’m gonna miss it. I actually enjoyed it and have met some really cool people on it. Sadly, the app had been taken over by young women promoting their OnlyFans and selling private snapchat sessions.
 
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Channeling Steve Jobs here...

Periscope was a feature... not a product.

And that feature was live streaming.

Notice how Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram were able to add live-video streaming to their existing apps and social networks. And billions of people immediately had access to it.

Look... I know there are some people who liked Periscope. It had a cult following. But it was never gonna have mass adoption if people had to create another account on some new service... and build a new following there.

Periscope's shutdown was inevitable... I'm sorry to say. :(
 
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Michael Scrip said:
Channeling Steve Jobs here...

Periscope was a feature... not a product.

And that feature was live streaming.

Notice how Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram were able to add live-video streaming to their existing apps and social networks. And billions of people immediately had access to it.

Look... I know there are some people who liked Periscope. It had a cult following. But it was never gonna have mass adoption if people had to create another account on some new service... and build a new following there.

Periscope's shutdown was inevitable... I'm sorry to say. :(
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Yep... that was another attempt at a standalone live video streaming app/service.

It seems the bigger companies (YT, FB, IG) were better able to leverage their existing networks and simply add live video as an additional feature.

It's not all bad news for Meerkat though... didn't they become HouseParty? I think they're still around.
 
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(Puts on old man hat) Back in the day, I recollect there used to be a Periscope app made by the Mac developer Freeverse - turned your iSight camera into a security monitor. I even had a license for it. Handy as heck! Ah, yes, back in the day... they don't make software like they used to!
 
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One unique thing that I don't think twitter has is you could see a map of the world with dots where people were broadcasting and pop in and look at them. That was really fascinating. Occasionally I'd wander around the globe and peek in on broadcasts from various parts of the world. When Venezuela was protesting, I spun the globe over to them and peeked in people broadcasting the protests as they happened. If twitter doesn't incorporate that kind of discoverability and exploration, then fie on them.
 
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This was one example of an app that managed to make my life better at times.
I can count those on my hands and toes.

As noted above, you could just happen upon people from around the world.
Mostly, they were normal people not trying to monetize something, and the screen was clean
(except for hearts), not cluttered with dozens of symbols like similar apps.

I will very much miss Periscope.
 
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A classic case of feature vs product.

When a feature is sustainable, competitors have an incentive to add it to their offering.

A feature needs to be disruptive to prevent the competition from following.
 
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