Quality of Service and You: Chasing the 1080p Unicorn

by Jason Maestas

(Here at Twitch we’re all about trying to educate you beautiful people as much as we can. An educated viewership is an empowered viewership, and we could most certainly use your help when it…

On Channel Following Limits

by Mike Ossareh

TL;DR: While trying to improve a critical part of Twitch, we made a hasty code change that limited the number of channels viewers could follow to 100. That was a mistake and we’re sorry! We’re raising that limit soon to 2000, with room…

Twitch Announces Record Breaking Growth

We’re thrilled to share with you all today some brand-new statistics on the record breaking growth we here at Twitch have experienced in the month of February. In terms of audience size, content creators and audience engagement, it’s never been a more exciting…

Everything You Need to Know about Twitch at PAX East 2013

PAX East, one of the largest consumer gaming conventions in North America, returns to Boston this Friday, March 22–24, and we’ll be right there on the show floor during the daytime, and taking over the night life in the evenings…

Update #5 — Channel Page Beta

by Matthew DiPietro

TL;DR: Starting on Thursday, March 28, we are entering the viewer “opt-out” phase of our channel page redesign beta. Why? Based on analytics, the new design outperforms the old design in every way. That’s good for viewers, which…

Explanation for Site Blip on March 19

by Mike Ossareh

Last night (3/19/2013) between about 6:50pm and 7:30pm Pacific, we were effectively “down.” This was an unplanned outage and I wanted to take this opportunity to explain what happened.

MLG Winter Championships

This weekend on Twitch, Major League Gaming celebrates the tenth anniversary of their annual Winter Championships series. It all begins tonight at 2:30PM PST, live from Dallas, Texas, featuring the very best in League of Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and StarCraft II: Heart of…