YouTube is opening up its livestreaming video feature to more users

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by Sindy Cator on February 7, 2017 at 2:00 pm

I get the feeling that YouTube doesn’t really know what it is anymore. In 2006, YouTube was simple. It was a place where you could share videos – from pirated TV clips, to footage of your dog who, by the way, is totes adorable. But now, it’s evolving into a legitimate social network-cum-livestreaming service. Today’s announcement is proof of that: It’s extending its mobile livestreaming service to anyone who has over 10,000 subscribers. Ten thousand subscribers isn’t all that much. According to Google, this will put the feature in the hands of literally hundreds of thousands of YouTube users. The…