Twitter said Tuesday that it intends to close down Periscope, its spearheading live video-web based application, by March 2021.

Twitter purchased the startup behind Periscope in January 2015 out of an arrangement allegedly worth up to $100 million, in the expectations that individual livestreaming video would commend its online media platform.

In any case, Twitter said in a blog entry Tuesday that Periscope’s utilization has been declining in the course of recent years, and it is to where it has gotten too exorbitant to even think about maintaining the application.

“The Periscope application is in an impractical support mode state, and has been for some time,” the company clarified. “Over the recent years, we’ve seen declining utilization and realize that the expense to help the application will just keep on going up over the long haul.”

Then, Twitter has been incorporating Periscope’s livestream capacities into its platform, which it initially presented in the fall of 2016. Clients can communicate live recordings on Twitter utilizing the Twitter Live component when they make a message.

“We likely would have settled on this choice sooner if not for the entirety of the tasks we reprioritized because of the occasions of 2020,” Twitter said.

Twitter said it will eliminate Periscope from application stores by March 2021, yet it is now impeding any new record information exchanges beginning today. Clients will get the opportunity to download a chronicle of both their Periscope recordings and their information before the application is covered one year from now. Moreover, the Periscope site will stay dynamic to fill in as a “read-just file of public transmissions,” the company said.

“In spite of the fact that it’s an ideal opportunity to bid farewell, the tradition of Periscope will live on a long ways past the limits of the application itself,” Twitter said. “The capacities and ethos of the Periscope group and framework as of now penetrate Twitter, and we’re certain that live video actually has the capability of seeing a much more extensive crowd inside the Twitter product.”