It's not exactly virtual reality, but Twitter's Periscope has a new update that could make the service a lot more immersive. On Wednesday, the company announced that 360 videos are now viewable in ...

Twitter said Tuesday that it plans to shut down Periscope, its pioneering live video-streaming app, by March 2021. Twitter bought the startup behind Periscope in January 2015 in a deal reportedly ...

Twitter’s recently launched “Explore” section will now feature live videos sourced from Periscope within its “Top Trends,” the company announced yesterday. The move will further integrate Twitter’s ...

Twitter is announcing a new ad unit — pre-roll ads on Periscope videos. In a blog post, Periscope Group Project Manager Mike Folgner says the ads will appear in a way that’s “organic to how people ...

Adding to a slowly growing set of value-added services, Twitter on Wednesday activated live 360-degree video streaming capabilities through its subsidiary Periscope, an interactive feature that puts ...

Usually, Periscope videos only stay online for 24 hours, before shuffling off to the big data centre in the sky. But a newly launched feature is set to change all that. Now, if you add #save to the ...

"RIP Periscope," creators and analysts have been crying. Twitter's decision to introduce going live in its main app, release an API and increase the presence of the app throughout Twitter — let alone ...

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