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- Facebook takes on Periscope and Meerkat, but only celebs can stream
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Wednesday, 5 August 2015
If you want to livestream your life, you have no shortage of options. Meerkat, Twitter’s Periscope, Hang w/, and now Facebook. Well, if you’re rich and famous, anyway. Today Facebook is announcing that public figures can now stream video with a new, creatively-named ‘Live’ feature in Facebook Mentions. If you haven’t heard of that app before, don’t feel too bad: it’s built so famous people like athletes, musicians, politicians and other celebrities to communicate directly with their fans. You need to be Verified user for it to work at all. Once a stream begins from a celebrity you follow, the…
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