There’s often a misconception that Twitch is a gold rush. This was especially true when Ninja experienced his meteoric rise to fame – and then reignited when he made his Mixer deal. But in reality, streaming can be a grind! A grind that involves hours of streaming, few people...
One of the most common annoyances that Twitch streamers deal with is follow bots. Every day, streamers are hit randomly with follow bots ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of fake accounts. These events can be nerve-wracking at the moment as notifications and chat spam takes over...
As streaming has gained more mainstream appeal, especially in light of COVID19 lockdowns, traditional celebrities are starting to stream. The music and sports industry are especially finding enjoyment in connecting with their audiences while playing games on Twitch. For fans, they may not...
Twitch streamers are waking up to the unfortunate news that they received a DMCA takedown over the last 12 hours. The DMCA’s appear to have been issues based upon clips, some of which are going back as far as 2017. While the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is...
A couple of weeks ago, Harris Heller posted an innocuous tweet about his feelings on Starting Soon screens. It wasn’t a controversial take, but considering Harris’ status as the ‘stream doctor’ it was perceived that way. Opinions that originate from authoritative...
Twitch announced their new “Safety Advisory Council”, in a tweet and blog post. The Council, comprised of members of the community and experts are tasked with informing and guiding decisions related to safety on the platform. Originally announced at Twitchcon 2019, the (then)...
In the last couple of days, Twitch has shut down two third-party developers’ tools by issuing takedown requests. Those two services are CommanderRoot and Overrustle Logs. As a result of the threat, both services have announced that they will be shut down. In both takedown demands...
Twitch may have just made a change to help address trolls who harass streamers. It’s something that streamers have been asking for for a long time, and it looks to be here! Shadowbans! After testing in three channels personally, and then having three other people try to replicate it...
Last night, Twitch sent out invites to their ‘new’ Twitch User Research Community. This is the second big wave of invites they’ve sent out, after the first one around December 10th, 2019. This research community is DIFFERENT than Twitch’s existing Research Power...
Back on January 20th, 2020, BadBunny, a notorious Twitch streamer made waves for a rant she made against her non-subscribers. The rant was viewed at least 4.3M views on Twitter, millions of times on YouTube, and over 1M views on Twitch clips. It was also covered by esports news media...
