Twitter sends Periscope to its app abattoir while MacKenzie Scott sets a $4 billion example for the rest of the tech billionaires
This week: Twitter's app abattoir and MacKenzie Scott's $4 billion example Periscope, the livestreaming app, that Twitter acquired in 2015, is going the way of Vine. Twitter announced plans Tuesday to shut down the Periscope standalone app, the latest example of Twitter's odd habit of euthanizing apps that it buys. Advertisement Unlike the 2017 shutdown of video-clip-looping app Vine, which came as a shock to many loyal users and for which Twitter never really provided an explanation, Twitter ascribed Periscope's death to simple economics: The app was not getting enough use to justify the o...
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