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I remember in 2015 when Meerkat launched. I liked it and everybody thought it would be the next big thing. People were starting to do very creative things wit
by rmason 6y ago
I remember in 2015 when Meerkat launched. I liked it and everybody thought it would be the next big thing. People were starting to do very creative things with it.
But Meerkat was not to be. You see Twitter had bought a competitor for $86 million that had yet to launch called Periscope.
Meerkat spread quickly through the use of Twitter. But when Twitter launched Periscope (which I always thought was the inferior product) and cut off Meerkat's Twitter access in effect torpedoing it. Twitter bought a previous short video startup previously (can't remember the name) only to kill it too.
I would have liked to see what Meerkat might have been.
- draw_down 6y ago... and then Periscope got buried by Instagram live and YouTube anyway. Hard to see a lesson besides “big guys win”