Twitter – Guardian Talks

Twitter said Tuesday that it intends to close down Periscope, its spearheading live video-web based application, by March 2021. Twitter purchased the startup behind Periscope in January 2015 of every an arrangement apparently worth up to $100 million, in the expectations that individual livestreaming video would praise its online media stage. Yet, Twitter said in a blog entry Tuesday that Periscope's use has been declining in the course of recent years, and it is to where it has gotten too expensive to even consider maintaining the application. “The Periscope app is in an unsustainable maintenance-mode state, and has been for a while,” the company explained. “Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen declining usage and know that the cost to support the app will only continue to ...

Twitter said Wednesday that records ensured with an hardware security key would now be able to sign in from their iPhone or Android device. The social media giant turned out help for hardware security keys in 2018, permitting clients to add an actual security obstruction to their records instead of other two-factor confirmation choices, similar to an instant message or a code created from an application. Security keys are sufficiently little to fit on a keyring yet make particular sorts of record hacks close to unimaginable by requiring a client to connect the key when they sign in. That implies programmers on the opposite side of the planet can only with significant effort break into your record, regardless of whether they have your username and password. However, specialized co...

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Twitter is closing its live video streaming app Periscope

Twitter for iPhone and Android device currently supports hardware security keys