Twitter today added a new feature to its Periscope live-streaming app that it says users have been asking about for years: the ability to invite guests onto a live recording. The new feature is designed to let streamers bring in audience members, while the Periscope app will then broadcast audio from that person to everyone else in the stream. Twitter says you’ll be able to include up to three guests in addition to the host on a live stream. If any one guest drops off, new ones can then be added.
The feature is another attempt from Twitter to reorient its live-streaming suite into something that might attract more of the podcast crowd, as well as Twitch and YouTube streamers that thrive on live content. Starting in December 2017, when…
Written by Nick Statt
This news first appeared on https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/4/18210750/twitter-periscope-invite-guests-live-streams-new-feature under the title “Twitter now lets you invite guests into Periscope live streams”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
