Source: venturebeat.com - Sunday, March 15, 2015
Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only -- apply here . Ticket prices increase on April 3rd! AUSTIN, Texas — As South by Southwest (SXSW) kicked off this week, one of the hottest pastimes was live-streaming video with the new app Meerkat. But Friday, Twitter shut off Meerkat’s access to its social graph , meaning that the app’s users no longer get automatic push notifications when people they follow post live-streamed videos. They do still see the streams in their Twitter feeds, but the move definitely made it harder for people to know when people they follow are streaming live. Twitter made its decision the same day it announced it had bought Periscope , a competing live-streaming app. Given the immense power of having an app take off at SXSW — see Twitter in 2007 and Foursquare in 2009 — this was thought to be a big blow to Meerkat, at least in terms of its ability to get a huge boost among the concentration of tens of thousands of digerati in Austin the way it would have been had the social graph access not been disabled. But that may have been mitigated, at least in the short term, by a couple of things. First, while Meerkat was already in the news a lot prior to SXSW, Twitter’s decision generated a huge amount of attention, drawing many new people to Meerkat. According to Mashable , Meerkat sign-ups
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Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only -- apply here . Ticket prices increase on April 3rd! AUSTIN, Texas — As South by Southwest (SXSW) kicked off this week, one of the hottest pastimes was live-streaming video with the new app Meerkat. But Friday, Twitter shut off Meerkat’s access to its social graph , meaning that the app’s users no longer get automatic push notifications when people they follow post live-streamed videos. They do still see the streams in their Twitter feeds, but the move definitely made it harder for people to know when people they follow are streaming live. Twitter made its decision the same day it announced it had bought Periscope , a competing live-streaming app. Given the immense power of having an app take off at SXSW — see Twitter in 2007 and Foursquare in 2009 — this was thought to be a big blow to Meerkat, at least in terms of its ability to get a huge boost among the concentration of tens of thousands of digerati in Austin the way it would have been had the social graph access not been disabled. But that may have been mitigated, at least in the short term, by a couple of things. First, while Meerkat was already in the news a lot prior to SXSW, Twitter’s decision generated a huge amount of attention, drawing many new people to Meerkat. According to Mashable , Meerkat sign-upsfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1GSupY8
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