reports: Twitter Has obtained Periscope Streaming Video App

Startup is still in non-public beta however is reportedly working on a mobile app just like Meerkat.

Martin Beck on March 9, 2015

seems like Twitter’s video revolution might be … are living streamed.

in accordance the multiple reports, Twitter has scooped up Periscope, a startup that enables folks to move are living video from their cell gadgets.

Periscope continues to be in personal beta and hasn’t introduced a product, but reportedly is working on an app much like Meerkat, the reside-streaming app that has not too long ago captured the eye of tech journalists and different tech types on Twitter. Many have puzzled whether Twitter would buy Meerkat so as to add reside video to its roster of features.

as a substitute, the corporate has picked up Periscope, according industry Insider, Recode and BloombergBusiness. trade Insider, which first mentioned the information, mentioned the deal was completed several weeks in the past.

A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment.

Twitter has been making a strong push into video of late, in January giving consumers the power to file and add clips of up to 30-second video from the cellular app. however Twitter video and its six-second Vine app don’t provide the immediacy of reside streaming, which given the viral upward push of Meerkat looks as if a missing piece of the Twitter ecosystem.

Many journalists supplemented their protection of as of late’s Apple Watch experience with the aid of streaming live via Meerkat and it’s simple to ascertain that simple get right of entry to to publishing reside video on Twitter being a popular feature.

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Martin Beck

Martin Beck is 0.33 Door Media’s Social Media Reporter, masking the newest information for advertising Land and Search Engine Land. He spent 24 years with the los angeles instances, serving as social media and reader engagement editor from 2010-2014. A graduate of UC Irvine and the college of Missouri journalism college, Beck began started his career on the occasions as a sportswriter and copy editor. practice Martin on Twitter (@MartinBeck), fb and/or Google+.