CNET News - Meet Livetext, Yahoo's new answer to Snapchat

The messaging app offers a way to connect to friends using ephemeral texts and silent live video.

[Qa]

Who the fu** wanna see my face while texting

Thats really a stupid idea

[desisingh]

great, now your contacts can see you in a crash, while people text and drive

[AHENLiFE]

All these big companies just keep copying each other but adding tiny differences. No real innovation.

[MrCina]

I guess this could be the end of asking for nude pics from girls and see it live from now on

[webbie]

Maybe this is the solution to help people from being catfish lol.

[irn]

So... i can't lie to my significant other about my whereabouts anymore...

[Sonu]

Seems like a niche app but will definitely have success

[edwardthomas]

All I see is shaky video and data limits being blown apart

[LaidbackPotato]

Just use skype and mute the microphone, you're done!

[dannynguyen]

Good that they don't have audios for people who have side baes if you know what I mean lmao

[SirDave]

It might be fun. I mean, I'm still communicating (The text).

[peppeddu]

Real emoji made with your face, good idea!

[sirdavidspagnolo]

If it's "yahoo's answer" to anything. It won't work.

[at]

So now remove the video and you've got something there.

[Blue_Jay_Plays]

what is this? Yahoo Live text? why cant we just use Skype? like we can text on Skype? and the mention about no sound? why can't you just mute your phone? if your so paranoid about needing to answer every call you get why not put your phone on vibrate? is this really going on to the internet? why the hell would I even get this? its like texting your friend when he's right in front of you!

[cileymyrus]

whose dumb idea was this? Hope they don't fire him...

[arnoldshivznager]

integrate retrica too with this app bc we r so ugly :D

[trippljjj]

😂😂😂 yahoo is so lame it's gonna flop because teens like me don't think it's cool kind of like android phones if you look at social media it starts out with teens using it and young adults then after about 4 years and then young people move to the next cool thing since the grown ups played it out I'm alluding to Facebook btw... Pretty much what I'm saying is you got to hit the 20s and teen market to do well in social media. But that's just my observation

[Sonu]

At least Yahoo is innovating unlike shit Microsoft time to dump Microsoft stock