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Twitter live broadcasts are back.

Twitter, or X as it’s currently being rebranded, now has live broadcasts again. Elon Musk posted on X to confirm that “live video now works reasonably well,” months after the “8-Bit Elon” test stream in May. It marks a return of the Twitter live broadcast feature after it disappeared following the shutdown of Periscope in 2021.

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