Chatroulette : Omegle Random Chat Alternative

ChatRoulette is a Random video chat application. They stepped into the random chat market at the same time as Omegle. It was established as a platform to meet new people as a format. Chatroulette.com became famous with the Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) event.

Chatroulette was started with a youngster founder who named Andrey Ternovskiy in Moscow.

He was a very excited person but also a lonely type. Maybe this was a motivation for him to meet strangers with a Video Chat with his website. So he begun building up the website and published it in 2009.

The next week from the launch, he started getting e-mails from serious investors and media enterprises like New York Times and Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures.

That was the time for feel like a VIP for him, after escaping like a mouse from a big big cat. These interviews was a ticket to the Silicon Valley, he had a visa to New York thanks to Fred Wilson.

Chatroulette was being chased from the authorities for a very long time. This was about the users’ age rate and the content seen on the webcam.

First, they settled a report system that kicks you for like 40 minutes if you have been reported by 3 users in 5 minutes. This wasn’t enough to deal with underage (under 18) users and nudity content.

So a new system arrived and imported to the system which decides the users’ age and nudity conditions. After all chatroulette upgraded itself with the experiences within 11 years, since 2009.

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