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Twitch is an American video live-streaming service popular in video games, including broadcasts of esports competitions. It also offers music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams. Twitch is operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon. [5]
Mixer used a low-latency streaming protocol known as FTL ("Faster Than Light"); [3] the service states that this protocol only creates delays of less than a second between the original broadcast and when it is received by users, rather than 10–20 seconds, making it more appropriate for real-time interactivity between a streamer and their viewers.
Cindy Charles, Twitch’s head of music and a digital-music veteran, died Monday from injuries she suffered in a traffic accident in the Netherlands, her husband Ricky Fishman confirms. She was 69.
Following the commercial success of the game's initial download-only Windows release, a Nintendo Switch port was announced in May 2022, including a Japan-exclusive physical release fanart book and a CD of the game's soundtrack. The Switch version was released on October 27, 2022, alongside a major update including new endings and text across ...
Musk shared his insights on X's aspirations to rival Twitch, a subsidiary of Amazon, his plans to share ad revenue with users, and discussed future plans for his satellite internet provider firm ...
It later became popular in the mid-2010s on sites such as Twitch. [5] By 2014, Twitch streams had more traffic than HBO Go and eventually hastened the closure of Justin.tv, which Twitch had originally spun out of. [6] [7] In 2015, YouTube launched YouTube Gaming, a video gaming-oriented sub-site and app that intended to compete with Twitch. [8]
On March 16, 2017, the Curse app was rebranded as the Twitch Desktop App and received a redesign. The Curse team became part of Twitch Interactive. [105] The Curse mobile app was rebranded as the Twitch Messenger app. [106] VentureBeat stated that this was an attempt to compete with Discord, "the dominant social platform in the gaming space."
Two days after Twitch updated its Sexual Content Policy to allow depictions of “fictionalized nudity” — if properly labeled — the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform has done an about-face.