Twitter makes it official, Periscope is shutting down

A few days after rumours of the live broadcasting app, Periscope getting an early retirement surfaced, Twitter announced on December 15 that it is shutting it down as a service citing “declining usage”. Twitter will discontinue the Periscope applications by March 2021, more than five years after acquiring it. The live streaming feature on the social media platform will stay as an integrated feature on the main app.

“The Periscope app is in an unsustainable maintenance-mode state, and has been for a while,” the company said 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.”