After the live streaming of their own, Twitter started to Meerkat.

The recent fire to the streaming media application Meerkat, which even Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, has been limited by Twitter. Meerkat's co-founder Ben Rubin confirmed the news.

In particular, Meerkat is barred from grabbing Twitter users ' followers ' information. This is a bad news for Meerkat. Because we all know that Meerkat is fast growing and inseparable from the social tree that is attached to Twitter. Meerkat uses Twitter identity to authenticate, and when the photographer opens the live broadcast on the Meerkat, Meerkat automatically publishes the Twitter followers that link to the photographer, allowing them to jump meerkat to watch and reply in the form of Twitter.

In explaining the move, a Twitter spokeswoman said, "It's all about internal policy, and later Meerkat users will be able to share video on Twitter and log in with Twitter accounts, but it's not possible to grab Twitter followers." "In the face of this, Ben Rubin can only grumble on Twitter," he said.

But we all know that Twitter has just bought Periscope, which provides streaming live services, at a price close to 100 million dollars. Periscope has not yet been online, starting small-scale tests about four months ago.

Periscope is not the first Twitter acquisition of a video start-up company, the 2012 acquisition of the short video service website Vine. In addition to acquisitions, Twitter has also launched a video feature that aims to accumulate more video content on its own platform and increase user activity.

In fact, there are already a lot of real-time streaming media applications and Web sites, in addition to the previous mentioned Meerkat and Periscope, as well as YouNow, recently won the Venrock, Union Square Ventures and several other investment agencies of the favor.

Therefore, the use of platform-level users to block the business of competitors, really not bat unique.