Monday 10 February 2014

One million broadcasters strong, Twitch surpasses Facebook in peak traffic

One million broadcasters strong, Twitch surpasses Facebook in peak traffic
Feb 10th 2014, 14:09, by Ben Popper


Netflix, Google, Apple, Twitch. Which one of these companies doesn't fit with the others? Twitch, the startup which lets players broadcast and watch live streams of video gaming action, is not yet a huge public company. Yet it ranks among these web titans as one of the largest sources of broadband traffic during prime-time hours, according to a new study from the cloud and network infrastructure firm DeepField.
Twitch announced today that is now has more than 1 million different users broadcasting on its platform each month. That helped it push more traffic across the web than big names in the streaming video and music business like Hulu, Amazon, and Pandora. "We don't keep track of our share of global internet traffic, so that chart...
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