Twitter Officially Adds Notifications for Periscope Live Videos

Twitter officially introduced a feature that had been spotted in the wild earlier this month: Users can receive notifications when accounts they follow share Periscope live videos.

Twitter officially introduced a feature that had been spotted in the wild earlier this month: Users can receive notifications when accounts they follow share Periscope live videos.

Alex Kantrowitz of BuzzFeed News reported on the feature’s existence Sept. 7, but he followed that up the next day with a report that the notifications button had disappeared.

The notification button is now live on iOS and Android, and Twitter officially announced it (via tweet, naturally) Monday:

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