Enabling Facebook, Twitter and MySpace users to participate in the same discussion

Dec 22, 2009 14:57 GMT  ·  By
The new Justin.tv chat enables Facebook, Twitter and MySpace users to participate in the same discussion
   The new Justin.tv chat enables Facebook, Twitter and MySpace users to participate in the same discussion

The live video streaming space is pretty crowded at the moment, but it's still seeing some very healthy growth. Despite revenue numbers being smaller than they'd like, live streaming services are competing at an increasing pace constantly trying to out do each other. The chat component for these sites has always been important and the move now is to unify the different chat services the site supports, making for a more seamless experience. Justin.tv is the last to do so, enabling its users to chat using their Facebook, Twitter or MySpace accounts, as well as their Justin.tv ones.

"Our new Unified Chat makes it simple for any Twitter, Facebook or Myspace user to start chatting without the need to create a Justin.tv account. Now, when you start to chat you will be presented with a new sleek way to sign in to your Justin.tv account or connect to other services with 1-click," Justin.tv's Caleb Elston writes. "We are also unifying chat for all users into the same view. Our old chat system kept Justin.tv, Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace chatters in separate and distinct rooms," he added.

Before entering a chat, users will now be asked to log in with one of the supported services as an alternative to using their Justin.tv accounts. Only Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are supported for now, but it's likely that this covers a significant portion of the site's mostly younger audience. Something like Google, Yahoo or an OpenID option would have been nice, but this will have to do for now.

After choosing an account, users will be able to chat along with everyone else in a unified room. This allows users not to miss out on the action regardless of the identity provider they choose. The new chat also pulls your avatar image from the account you're signed in with and adds small icons to them to distinguish between the different services.