Twitter bought Periscope in 2015, a service that allowed broadcast live and that quickly became one of the most used services. However, as the years passed and new alternatives came to the market, Periscope gradually became a service with a very small number of users, and as usual, the time has come for its closure.
Twitter has officially announced that Periscope will stop operating in March 2021. The reasons, as is usual, are related to the profitability of this platform, a deficit profitability according to the company and that in addition, many of the functions have been integrated into Twitter in recent years.
This announcement comes a few days after the Squad Twitter purchase, a platform that allowed to share the screen and hold a video conference together, and when I say allowed in the past tense, it is because one day after its purchase, Twitter closed the company.
Although the reasons for closing it have not been published, it is more than likely that Twitter wants to give the concept of ei a spin.integrate it into your platformas Squad co-founders have joined Twitter's engineering staff.
As we can read in the announcement of the closure of Periscope, this platform will remain operational until March 2021. The public videos will continue to be available through its website, although it has not been specified until when they will. When Twitter decided to close Vime, it made the same move, but after a few months, the web disappeared with all the content that users had created.
Therefore, it is highly recommended that if you have created content for this platform, you start download all content If you do not want to lose it permanently without being able to recover it in the future.
