Up Periscope: Inside Twitter’s one-year-old broadcast startup

It’s been a little more than a year since we collectively discovered our passion for personal live broadcasting on Twitter – mostly thanks to Meerkat. It’s no small irony that, today, Meerkat has pivoted away from live broadcasting while Periscope, Twitter’s own service that appeared just a few weeks after the mongoosian streaming option, survived and, by some measures thrived.

In the social media world, Periscope enjoys success on a small scale. As of its last reported daily active user numbers in August, it had 10 million users and while the company no longer reports users, it happily touts stream views. In March, Periscope celebrated 200 million broadcasts and claims to stream 110 years-worth of video every day. Read more...