Since live streams began taking over Twitter feeds earlier this year, a common complaint has been that they end before you could watch them. Periscope did enable replays within 24 hours after a stream ended, but only on its apps for Android and iOS. That changes today with the launch of web replays. Just click a link to a Periscope stream, and once the page opens in your browser, you can hit the play button to re-live the stream.
You can now watch Periscope replays on the web
For 24 hours, anyway
For 24 hours, anyway
is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast.
As Periscope is being adopted by more media and entertainment personalities, it’s rapidly building out a feature set that supports them. The next obvious step is to let sites like ours embed these streams on our own sites, and to remove the 24-hour limit for replays. Here’s hoping both are coming soon.
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