For quite some time now, Periscope has lagged behind Facebook’s live streaming service, Facebook Live, due to its inability to save videos permanently.
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In addition to keeping videos longer, the company also said it’s working on allowing users to delete their broadcasts in less time as well. Facebook recently adapted it to great fanfare, and says Facebook Live is the fastest growing product ever for the social network.
“The Next Web reports that adding “#save” to the titles of Periscope videos will mean that they don’t expire after 24 hours.
Previously, broadcasts disappeared after 24 hours.
You can always delete it later if you don’t need it any more.
The good news is that Periscope is now testing out a way to allow users to save their broadcasts. For advertisers and other content creators, Periscope seemed next to useless.
Periscope users have been using a third party tool to save their live streaming and now can do away with it. Facebook Live and Snapchat have been offering new features to subscribers for live streaming and saving it for future use. “We are actively building support for controlling how your broadcasts stay on Periscope”.
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Beykpour prefaced the news by explaining that it’s part of a bigger feature, or set of features. Broadcasts with the #save hashtag will be visible in a user’s profile, and also wherever else they show up, while links shared externally like on Twitter will remain permanently active. The real-time interactive tweeting and broadcasting nature was something exclusive to Twitter, but the social platform is losing its groove as it looks to Facebook to keep up with the trends that it once itself had set.
