Periscope faced the challenge of responding to users’ requests for the ability to broadcast audio without video while not rejiggering its entire front-end and back-end infrastructure—and to complete the task in just three days.
Staff engineer Richard Plom explained in a blog post how his team met its goal of completing work on the feature during Twitter’s recent #HackWeek.
Plom noted that Periscope users who were not comfortable being on camera but still wanted to participate in discussions via the livestreaming application’s chatroom feature had been resorting to measures such as covering their camera lenses.
He said that configuring Periscope’s front-end clients and back-end infrastructure to handle audio-only streams would involve multiple teams and potentially take a few months to wrap up.
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