Meerkat is dying
I had a debate with one of TechCrunch's head editors about the journalistic coverage of Meerkat: <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanlawler/status/582547758248136704" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/ryanlawler/status/582547758248136704</a><p>Coincidentally TechCrunch published a more analytical approach a few hours later: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/schrodingers-meerkat/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/schrodingers-meerkat/</a><p>What really annoys me is that no one took the devil's advocate approach to analyzing Meerkat. "It's a new paradigm in live-streaming," perhaps, but no one has considered that such a paradigm only fits in the narcissistic Silicon Valley culture.<p>Periscope atleast managed to appeal to non-techies, but even then, it appears to have peaked. In the first week of release.<p>There's a nonzero probability that everyone was wrong about personal livestreaming in the first place.