End of an Era: Periscope Will Shut Down in March 2021

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Live streaming video app Periscope was created in 2015 and acquired by Twitter shortly before its launch in March of the same year. Only four months after the launch, the app had over 10 million accounts registered.

Periscope announced on Tuesday that the live streaming video app would be discontinued by March 2021 as a separate mobile app due to the high costs of maintenance and a decline in its usage.

"Today, we’re sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021", Periscope said in a statement. "We’re planning to remove Periscope from the app stores by March 2021, but no one will be able to create a new account in-app starting with the next release".

Most of the core capabilities of Periscope, the statement outlined, have been brought into Twitter, the company that acquired the video app before its public launch.

​According to the statement, users will be able to download or archive Periscope broadcasts and data before the app is shut down and streams that were shared on Twitter will remain there. The Periscope team also pointed at Twitter Live and Media Studio as alternatives to the outgoing app.

Netizens felt like the upcoming Periscope shutdown was "an end of an era" and took to Twitter to share nostalgic memories of the livestreaming app.

​A livestreaming video app, Periscope was developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein in 2015 and acquired by Twitter before the app was publicly launched. Later in August 2015, the app had already surpassed 10 million registered accounts - only four months after its launch.

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