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Twitch Streamer Prangs Car While Streaming
Let MeltIsLIVE, aka Melt be a warning to you: don’t use your phone while driving, and certainly don’t use it to stream behind the wheel.
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Twitch Will Let Viewers Pay To Pin Their Messages In Streamers’ Chats
Twitch will introduce a new feature that allows chat participants to pin their messages and WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG.
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Twitch Pulls Shooting Vid Quickly, But Facebook And Streamable Reuploads Reached Millions
Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch said it removed a livestream of a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York over the weekend within two minutes of it going live. But that response time was not enough to stop recordings of the footage from spreading to other online platforms, like Facebook, where links to the heinous act remained…
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Hot Tub Streams Are Waning, But Some People Still Think They’re Destroying Twitch
It’s hot tub stream summer, and everybody’s got an opinion. This week, for example, the biggest streamer on Twitch, Félix “xQc” Lengyel, called hot tub streams “trash,” saying that they’re “the most pathetic thing we’ve seen on Twitch in forever” and petitioning for them to be removed from the front page. It was the latest…