Earlier this week, Twitter’s livestreaming app Periscope announced that it would be shutting down next year, marking the end of an era for the app that introduced the world to livestreaming as we know it today.
An introduction to using Periscope for live streaming video content
Periscope will officially shut down in March 2021, exactly six years after its launch, due to unsustainable maintenance and declining usage. But experts say the deactivation doesn’t mean it was a failure.
“I started using Periscope right after it launched in March of 2015, and it was a complete game-changer,” Kerry Shearer, a live streaming communications expert in Sacramento, told Lifewire over the phone. “Here was a service where you could go live to the entire world from a smartphone.”
The launch of Periscope was the first time that many people had access to live streaming, and thus access to different parts of the world through the eyes of other people in real time. From breaking news coverage to entrepreneurs trying to cultivate an audience, Periscope’s legacy has been connecting people.
