Pretty sure you only get Meerkat messages if you install the app or enter/comment-on the streams. That might reasonably be an 'opt-in', depending on the descriptions offered at each step.
I'm following a lot of people who've announced Meerkat streams, and I've watched a Meerkat stream via the web – but I've not received any unsolicited messages.
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.
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Pretty sure you only get Meerkat messages if you install the app or enter/comment-on the streams. That might reasonably be an 'opt-in', depending on the descriptions offered at each step.
I'm following a lot of people who've announced Meerkat streams, and I've watched a Meerkat stream via the web – but I've not received any unsolicited messages.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
Now they will be Periscope tweets :-)