At first only broadcasters in the United States will be eligible, but Periscope plans to expand to other countries soon, it said. "The spirit and the goal is for all broadcasters to be able to do this," said Sara Haider, Periscope's director of engineering.
After fees and payment processing, broadcasters will get about 70 percent of the remaining revenue, Twitter said. It declined to provide an estimate of its own potential revenue from the service. Periscope, which Twitter launched in 2015, said it streamed 77 million hours of live, user-generated video in the first three months of this year. It does not release the number of viewers. YouTube, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said in February it was rolling out live streaming from mobile devices for users with more than 10,000 subscribers, expanding its own bid to help online performers make money.