And users weren’t coming back to the platform to watch archived streams on replay, he wrote: “Blab was great in many ways, but it wasn’t going to be an everyday thing for millions.So we’re kicking down the sandcastle, and re-building it as an ‘always on’ place to hang with friends.” Currently (as of December 2017 at the latest) the site offers a multi-feature Twitch streaming software (similar to Open Broadcaster Software or XSplit).

Users could also see who had visited their profiles (a feature which could be changed in settings).Other features included: Bebo runs on servers running the Resin Server and uses the Oracle Database system.It is estimated that Bebo had somewhere between 50 Phantom4 servers provided by Rackable Systems and has over 100TB of disk space across all of their servers.The site was purchased by AOL on March 13, 2008 for 0 million, with the Birches' combined 70% stake yielding a profit of 5 million from the deal. This was mainly due to the falling numbers of unique users; Bebo users were moving to rival site Facebook.AOL said that Bebo could not compete with other social networking sites in its current state, and that the company could not commit to taking on the massive task to keep Bebo in the social network 'race'.