Meerkat (app)
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| Original author(s) | Ben Rubin |
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| Developer(s) | Life On Air, Inc. |
| Stable release | iOS: 1.3 (May 2, 2015[1]) [±] Android: 0.9.6 (May 10, 2015[2]) [±] |
| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | iOS, Android |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Video streaming, social networking service |
| Website | meerkatapp |
Meerkat is a mobile app that enables users to broadcast live video streaming through their mobile device. Once signed up, Meerkat users have the option of connecting their Facebook and Twitter accounts, and stream directly to their followers as soon as they go live. The app is available for both iOS and Android.
The app was released in February 2015, then quickly found popularity after its debut on the website Product Hunt, as well as widespread use during the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, both in March 2015.[3]
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Development
Meerkat is developed by Life On Air, Inc., a team headed by founder and CEO Ben Rubin. The back-end powering the app was developed over the course of two years for a previous video product of theirs.
The company raised $12 million in venture capital funding from Greylock Partners in March 2015.[4]
Twitter reaction
In March 2015, weeks after the release of Meerkat, Twitter cut off Meerkat's access to its social graph, then announced the acquisition of the competing app Periscope.[5] Twitter publicly launched Periscope on March 26, 2015. Apart from providing the similar functionality of live-streaming to users' Twitter followers, Periscope also gives users an option to let anyone play the stream back.[6][7]
Meerkat-based tools
Various additional services and tools have been developed that make use of Meerkat. These did include Katch.me,[8] which, until April 22, 2016, allowed users to save their Meerkat stream via the cloud,[9] and #lookats,[10] which lets users view and chat on Meerkat directly from their browser.[11]
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References
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