Meerkat has forced Twitter to release Periscope early

Meerkat is a simple app really, all it does is allow users to live stream from their smartphones and automatically tweets a link to their broadcast. The problem is that Periscope does pretty much the exact same thing except that it’s actually owned by Twitter which is why the company has been trying to hard to kill Meerkat in the womb. That obviously failed and now Twitter has been forced to release its live streaming app early.