Live-streaming app’s founders say it now has nearly 2m daily active users watching 40 hours of video per day to their smartphones

Twitter’s standalone app for live-streaming video, Periscope, now has nearly two million daily active users watching 40 hours of broadcasts a day.

Periscope published the stats to celebrate another milestone: its 10 millionth registered user since the app first launched for Apple’s iPhone in March, with an Android version following in May.

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