Buzzy new app Meerkat has been getting a lot of eyeballs in its first two weeks as Hollywood joined the tech community logging on to test the livestreaming video service. Of course, celebrity endorsements don’t mean the difference between IPO and DOA — unless you’re developing the next Kim Kardashian app — but the added exposure is a benefit.
While Twitter turned off Meerkat’s access to its social graph Friday (after officially announcing its competing product Periscope), the first-to-market app still tweets out an alert to your Twitter followers as you begin streaming. So far, Meerkat has gained a reported 150,000 users since it launched Feb.