Facebook Adds Continuous Facebook Live Video API

Facebook introduced a continuous live video API that will allow Facebook Live videos to run as long as creators want, but there’s a catch: Those videos can’t be archived.

Facebook introduced a continuous live video application-programming interface that will allow Facebook Live videos to run as long as creators want, but there’s a catch: Those videos can’t be archived.

Josh Constine of TechCrunch reported on the new API, saying that previously, Facebook Live videos were limited to 90 minutes in order to save storage space, which is not an issue with the new continuous videos, since they will not be stored.

Product management director Fidji Simo told Constine:

We’ve already seen some interesting use cases–for example, it was used by explore.org to

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