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I feel Twitch is one of the wildest and weirdest social platforms of the millennium.
This is attributed to the ever-expanding community in just about every domain.
Those are impressively big numbers, and the charts show the COVID-19 pandemic helped Twitch achieve this feat.
Its users requested features to life-cast themselves, giving birth to Twitch.tv.
Out of all the categories offered initially, gaming grew best, making it the companys primary focus.
Google made the first move to make Twitch its own with a $1 billion offer in 2014.
However, Google pulled out later, fearing potential anti-trust litigation because of its existing YouTube ownership.
Finally, Amazon clinched the opportunity by buying Twitch with an all-cash $970 million deal in August 2014.
Nevertheless, other categories, such as music and esports, are catching fast.
In the gaming category, Grand Theft Auto V was the frontrunner, followed by League of Legends.
Fortnite and Counter-Strike took the third and fourth spots, respectively.
The latest data from StreamCharts indicates that there are 66, 872 Twitch Partners as of February 2024.
Twitch users in the US follow a similar pattern, as shown by the chart below.
of average viewers, and no.
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And Ninja is the most followed Twitch streamer, according to TwitchMetrics.
In the same period, 83.2% of channels had one active moderator.
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Twitchs AutoMod removed 77.08 million harmful messages in the second half of 2022.
Still, 19.74 million removals had someone doing it manually in the same period.
Twitch it!
Though its facing some competition from YouTube, its comfortably safe as of now.
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