UPDATE: After this post published, Periscope released a page in its Help Center titled: “How are viewership metrics calculated?” that explains how it counts video views across its service. Twitter’s ...

Early last year, Twitter bought live video-streaming app Periscope, before it had even been announced. Then it pretty much let it do its thing–including launching last March–without taking any ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Meerkat has enjoyed over a month of dominance in the streaming-video category, but Twitter's release of Periscope has changed all that. Here's why. Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years.

Twitter changed how we express ourselves, by offering a simple way to share short updates with the world. The popular microblogging platform has since brought that same on-the-spot experience to video ...

Periscope is embracing professional streaming and expanding beyond amateur content shot on phones with its new Periscope Producer feature. It allows creators to generate a special URL that they can ...

Get ready for some serious action in your Twitter feed. After acquiring Periscope early in 2015, Twitter is finally making big moves with its real-time video streaming tool. Beginning today, Periscope ...

Twitter wants to help you step up your livestreams. The social network's livestreaming app Periscope is opening up its app so that users can live stream directly from cameras other than the ones on ...

Think Twitter's Periscope app is just a passing fad? The company on Wednesday announced that Periscope now has more than 10 million registered users. The live-streaming app surpassed that milestone on ...