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Twitch
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American live-streaming platform
Twitch is an American platform where people can watch and broadcast live video streams, primarily focused on video games and gaming culture. It matters because it has become a major way that gamers connect with audiences, build communities, and earn income from their streaming activity.
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Twitch
Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- online video platform
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Justin Kan
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Owned by
- Amazon
- Official website
- www.twitch.tv
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- service status information URL
- status.twitch.tv
- inception
- 2011-06-06
- topic's main category
- Category:Twitch (service)
- Commons category
- Twitch (service)
- Alexa rank
- 40
- topic has template
- Template:Twitch
- social media followers
- 83565
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/twitch
- review score
- 1.6
- Similarweb ranking
- 28
- search formatter URL
- www.twitch.tv/search?term=$1
- shortened URL formatter
- link.twitch.tv/$1
- contact page URL
- help.twitch.tv/s/contactsupport
- replaces
- Justin.tv
- login URL
- www.twitch.tv/login
- registration page URL
- www.twitch.tv/signup
- operating area
- South Korea
- URL
- twitch.tv
- official blog URL
- blog.twitch.tv
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Encyclopedic overview
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. It was introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform Justin.tv.
Content on the site can be viewed either live or via video on demand. The games shown on Twitch's current homepage are listed according to audience preference and include genres such as real-time strategy games, fighting games, racing games, and first-person shooters.
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