With Thursday’s public release of Periscope, Twitter is trying to torpedo its live-streaming competition by launching its own app that lets users send video to viewers around the world at the tap of a touchscreen. In development for more than a year but bought by Twitter earlier this year, Periscope offers a nearly identical service to Meerkat, the wildly popular ephemeral video app that launched on Feb.

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  • Young children groomed on live streaming app Periscope
    Children as young as nine are being groomed on the live streaming app Periscope, a BBC investigation has found. Twitter, which owns the app, says it has “zero tolerance” for this kind of conduct.
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