I don't think it's a case of "something people want", but FOMO and spammy Twitter tactics. It sucks in your Twitter friends graph, and whenever you start strea

I don't think it's a case of "something people want", but FOMO and spammy Twitter tactics. It sucks in your Twitter friends graph, and whenever you start streaming it posts to Twitter with the |LIVE NOW| announcements. Those two methods at least make sense - but it's the Meerkat chat that's annoying and inexcusable. It's cross posted to Twitter and everything you type is @-replied to yourself (instead of to the people you're replying to), so your Twitter followers are forced to see your Meerkat conversations... and only your half of the conversation. There's no reason those conversations couldn't just stay on Meerkat, and you can't see the rest of the conversation unless you're on Meerkat yourself. I have never muted anything on Twitter as fast as I've muted everything to do with Meerkat. Even then, I still can't mute those one-sided Meerkat conversations, because there's no hashtag - I'll probably just have to unfollow those users. But at least it's given me a great understanding of how people feel whenever I tweet about Eurovision or soccer.