By John Glenday

Twitter has augmented its range of services with the launch of Periscope, a live-video app recently acquired by the micro-blogging platform which utilises smartphone cameras to broadcast footage from any location with sufficient mobile data bandwidth.

The fleeting vid idea was conceived by Periscope co-founder Kayvon Beykpour during street protests in Turkey as a means of informing the world about current events and has been embraced by Twitter as a natural progression of its six second loop Vine platform.

Speaking to tech Crunch Beykpour said: “Our vision is similar to Twitter’s. We’re trying to build a medium that gives you a pulse Read full story ›

Source: The Drum