Down Periscope! Twitter Shuts Its Video Streaming Project

Grace Edwards 31 Mar 2021

It’s been announced in December 2020 that Periscope is to be shut down by Twitter. Today is the final day of this once popular service; tomorrow all Periscope features will be deactivated. Even if you keep the app as a sweet memory, it will be defunct. So you can start your goodbye streams – in case there’s anybody to watch them.

In 2016, Twitter advertised Periscope as a revolutionary service it was. Sharing video in real time was quite a new thing. Many users must remember that awe inspired by first demonstration: it’s in real time. And the feedback is in real time, too! But recently its usage was declining too hard to maintain it.

Probably the reason for that popularity decline is simple: most popular social media apps now have video streaming as just one-of feature, not a reason to dedicate an entire app with its own name. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, well, YouTube – everyone is about streaming, let alone Twitch. Even Twitter itself has it!

Though the periscope is down, the entire submarine isn’t going to drown. The built-in streaming feature in the Twitter app that was introduced back in 2016 will remain, and maybe even get additional features from Periscope. More than that: the archive of saved streams will remain available as a Periscope museum. And if there is a video you would like to keep or reposts, you are still able to do it.