Twitter's entry into the live mobile streaming game appears to be paying off, as the company has announced that Periscope currently has 10 million registered accounts. And while those 10 million accounts, registered on both iOS and Android devices, don't indicate that the service has 10 million "users" (many could be one-and-done, dormant accounts), the number is nevertheless a healthy early signal that, four months post launch, Periscope was probably a wise bet for Twitter. The new numbers were laid out in a message from the company on Wednesday, in which we also learned that Periscope users are watching the equivalent of "40 years of video per day." When the short messaging company acquired Periscope back in March the service was going up against Meerkat, which reportedly had around 60,000 users at the time. A subsequent report, just weeks later, had Meerkat's user numbers at 300,000 users. But that's all ancient history. Twitter's crackdown on Meerkat's access to it social graph, along with Periscope's native infrastructure advantage, quickly rocketed Periscope to popularity. In short order, Periscope snagged one million users, just 10 days after its launch. Since then, the once blazing-hot live-streaming app Meerkat has largely been quiet in terms of user chatter on Twitter (at least compared its beginnings). Neither company has revealed how many users actually use its streaming services. And Meerkat did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding how many accounts it has registered. But as companies like Facebook and Yahoo jump into the mobile video streaming arena, the active number of users all around is likely to spike in the coming months. Where that will leave small upstarts, like Meerkat, and more recently Blab, will likely be determined by which platform hosts the next unexpected, live streaming social media phenomenon.
Twitter has announced that Android currently has 10m registered accounts, and users are currently watching the equivalent of "40 years of video per day".