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Twitter Wants to be Your New Messaging App

In a post on its developer blog, Twitter announced it’s doing away with its 140 character limit on direct messages. The change will take place in July. The change in policy is speculated to be prompted by increasing competition from Facebook, which beefed up its own messaging capabilities. Twitter’s added changes to its DM functionality by allowing group messaging as well as allowing any user to … Continue reading Twitter Wants to be Your New Messaging App

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Meerkat Pivots to Facebook

Meerkats on the African savannah are known for their upright postures to scan the horizon for eagles and other birds of prey. In a way, Meerkat the app is looking for something as well, though in this case, it’s on the lookout for an ally instead of a predator. The app could use a friend. Though it was the first one off the lifestreaming-as-app block, … Continue reading Meerkat Pivots to Facebook

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Twitter and Periscope Talk Rollout, Meerkat but No Mention of What’s in the Office Fridge

With Periscope exploding into the mobile sphere, the public is as interested in the development of the app and its $100 million deal with Twitter as it is in the contents of strangers’ refrigerators (nope, I don’t get it either). Jessica Verrilli, Twitter’s director of corporate development and strategy, Periscope co-founder Kayvon Beykpour and Periscope’s first engineer, Aaron Wasserman, sat down with Product Hunt (for … Continue reading Twitter and Periscope Talk Rollout, Meerkat but No Mention of What’s in the Office Fridge

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Up, Periscope: Meerkat Competitor Launches on iOS App Store

If the last few weeks in tech could be reduced to one word, Meerkat would be a strong contender. On the spot, untethered streaming was the stuff of very dedicated tech geeks until now. Meanwhile, Twitter’s held back its livstreaming app, Periscope, which it acquired earlier this year. That is, until today. Early this morning Periscope hit the iOS App Store. Its available now for iPhones … Continue reading Up, Periscope: Meerkat Competitor Launches on iOS App Store

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