Twitter pulls the plug on Periscope, website to live on as public broadcast archive

Twitter is shutting down its Periscope services. Periscope, the live streaming app for Android and iOS will be discontinued from March 2021. In a blog post, the company said that maintenance for the app is currently unsustainable and it has been this way for a while now. “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,” Twitter’s blog post read. While the separate application is being shut, the company said that it will integrate live video streaming to its Twitter Live feature within the main Twitter app.