Introducing Your Profile

by Jacob Woodsey

(As Twitch continues to grow and evolve, so too will your personal footprint on this site. When we introduced our current channel page design back in November 2012, we listened carefully to your feedback and remain determined to meet your…

Site Outage: Passwords and Stream Keys Reset

by Jason Maestas

TL;DR: DON’T PANIC — We were not hacked. Our web CDN made a requested change without obeying our caching ruleset, which resulted in some caching that had a (very, very) slim probability of revealing a limited…

Say Hello to the Twitch Media Group

by Chase

When you watch our ads, you’re supporting both Twitch and your favorite streamers, so we want to keep those spots as relevant and engaging as possible. CBSi has done a bang up job over the past year to ensure we had great…

Highlights in Offline Players

by Jacob Woodsey

You may have noticed that we’re experimenting with a new way to help your viewers discover highlights from your channel. Offline players will now show-off your recent highlights while you’re offline.

Regarding Recent Chat Issues

by Mike Ossareh

(Chat is complicated. There, we said it. And recently, Twitch has experienced its first significant chat outages in quite a long while. In the past year, our team has rolled out a new chat infrastructure that we lovingly refer to as TMI…

Twitch App Update Brings Major Features to Android

Good news, everyone! We’re happy to report that you may now login to your Twitch account and view followed channels with the latest update to the Twitch App for Android. This has been a long time coming as the Android app never allowed for…

Follow Up on Site Outage

By now many of you are aware that Twitch had a site outage over the weekend, and many of you were personally affected by it. We’re happy to report that we’ve worked through all of the issues that caused the outage, and it’s now clear sailing for most Twitch users.