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Twitter’s live streaming app Periscope is testing out a new feature that will enable users to to keep hold of their broadcasts permanently.
CEO Kayvon Beykpour announced in a Periscope broadcast (what else?) that if users added #save to the title of their videos, they would be kept online forever, instead of the current policy of disappearing after 24 hours.
Users would then have the choice of if and when to delete the posts in the future.
The feature has now been made available to all users as part of a public beta – so it is not yet a permanent move – with feedback wanted from Periscope’s user base.
The move comes in the wake of Facebook rolling out their Facebook Live feature, which not only offers more competition in the live broadcasts space, but also enables users to go back at any time and see previous broadcasts.
Another app that initially relied on its instantaneous nature before evolving was Snapchat, which eventually added Stories and the news section to the app alongside the disappearing photos and videos that formed its centre. This development has allowed Snapchat to become one of the biggest social media platforms around, and Periscope’s move appears to be in the same mould.
