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0 pointsghshephard11y ago0 comments

"Pretty sure you only get Meerkat messages if you install the app or enter/comment-on the streams"

Nope, my twitter stream is buried with |LIVE NOW| tweets from people who are using Meerkat. I'm hoping that will stop now.

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harryh11y ago· 2 in thread

It will not. Twitter only restricted access to the social graph.

If the people you follow on twitter want to send out meerkat tweets that's their own business.

ghshephardOP11y ago

It's the meerkat app that sends out the tweets. So, you are saying that the meerkat app still has the ability to let all the followers of an individual know that a live stream is on? Seems like meerkat still has "broadcast access" to the twitter social graph then.

harryh11y ago

By "access to the social graph" I meant "access to contents of the social graph."

Meerkat can send a tweet. It can no longer examine the social graph to determine who will see it.

ChuckMcM11y ago

Now they will be Periscope tweets :-)

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