Facebook's biggest livestream yet featured President Obama and a lot of confusion
Barack Obama, BuzzFeed and Facebook — It was supposed to be a high-profile showcase for new journalism from new tech**logy with the new-media President.
Instead it became the most high-profile example yet of how live streaming can go wrong.*
BuzzFeed's livestream interview on Monday with President Barack Obama froze on Facebook, leaving the site with only a short introductory clip of the interviewer.*
BuzzFeed ended up re-directing Facebook viewers to watch the livestream on YouTube by pasting a link to the latter in the comments.*That video has already logged more than 100,000 views.
The origin of the problem with Facebook's stream was **t immediately clear, although YouTube's seemed to work well. The two companies have developed a strong rivalry as leaders in online video, with the two arguing over viewing metrics and battling fo advertiser money. Read more...