You can now live stream on Twitter without the Periscope app

Get ready to see a lot more live video on Twitter.

More than a year after acquiring Periscope, the platform is finally making live streaming an official part of its app. Twitter was updated Wednesday with the ability to begin a live broadcast directly from the app without opening Periscope.

"Live" will now appear as an option alongside photo and video from your camera roll when you post a new tweet. Selecting live will begin a new Periscope stream just as it does in the app. And streams started on Twitter will be visible within the Periscope app as usual.  Read more...