Twitch.tv
| Community | Gamers, Craftsmen, Musicians, Entertainment |
| Membership | Free |
| Privacy | features that support privacy |
| Self Identity | Video Streaming Site |
| Features | unique features |
| Status | |
| Launch Date | June 6, 2011 |
| Users | 45 million+ |
Twitch.tv is a platform used for live video streaming focusing mainly on video games. Streamers, the user's creating and preforming the live video content, broadcast everything from video game play-throughs to talk shows to live tournament events. Since it was founded in 2011, Twitch has seen steady increases in numbers of new visitors and streamers, and in 2015, Twitch announced it was hosting over 1.5 million broadcasters and 100 million visitors each month.
History
Twitch.tv was founded in 2011; however, its roots go back to Justin.tv, formed in 2007 by Justin Kan and Emmet Shear. Originally, their concept of the website centered around Justin Katz wearing a hat with a video camera and microphone attached and going about broadcasting his everyday activities or as the termed was coined, a "Lifecast". Later, they divided the site into different categories with gaming becoming the most popular by far. With the unprecedented success of the gaming section on Justin.tv, the company decided to devote an entirely new website to this category naming it Twitch.tv, after the term "twitch gameplay", which refers a gamer's reaction time to certain in-game scenarios.
With the gaming portion of the newly launched Justin.tv taking off, the company moved their focus to creating Twitch.tv
Users & Audience
Users who stream video games and other content are called streamers. "Streamers" have their own name and channel that they can customize. In
