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Twitch

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Broadcast live gaming content, esports, creative arts, and IRL streams with real-time audience interaction, subscriptions, ads, and donations, fostering a global community.

The new Twitch design since September 26 2019

License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows  There's a desktop Twitch app [https://app.twitch.tv/](https://app.twitch.tv/)
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • Kindle Fire
  • Playstation
  • Fire TV
  • Xbox
3.7 / 5 Avg rating (9)
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Gaming-focused

Features

  1.  Game Streaming
  2.  TV Streaming
  3.  Two-factor Authentication
  4.  Video Hosting
  5.  Dark Mode
  6.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  7.  Real Time Chat
  8.  Live Streaming
  9.  Interaction
  10.  Watch videos
  11.  Web-Based
  12.  Live Broadcasting

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
ab1
Jun 4, 2021
1

Can't do 4K steams AFAIK.

Top Negative Comment
Aeroz
Dec 1, 2019
2

Cannot stream without giving them your phone number.

[Edited by Aeroz, May 30]

It seems you can again, I wonder if it'll last. I don't want to keep coming back to update.

Can't bring myself to raise it past 2-3 stars though, because they want to decide what you find appropriate or not for you, and enforce that over you and your viewers.

ab1
Jun 4, 2021

They had many incidents already. So they are right.

candidly
Dec 12, 2023

often times "incidents" are "artificial" to impose tyranny.

candidly
Dec 12, 2023
0

Twitch is useless due to artificial message quantity limits which limit social interaction and organic growth. How is being able to message only a few dozen people, before messaging disabled, constitute social media? Makes zero sense. Most of the people who you message on twitch likely aren't even actively online at the time that you message them to begin with. So of course, you're going to need to send more than a few dozen message especially since it seems that users have been conditioned to assume that most messages are bogus. Such conditioning could've only came from twitch itself. To limit and restrict social interaction and organic growth.

ninjattv
May 22, 2023
-1

Love the community management tools and customizability of profile page. They’re ahead of YouTube Live in many regards. I want to see higher bitrate limits, 8000kbps is too low in 2023.

Michael Miller
Apr 27, 2020
-1

amazing for streaming or watching you fav gamer

Nikolay Kozachenko
Apr 4, 2019
-7

I love watch steams evert day. Better than stupid show at youtube.

Neel2000
Dec 16, 2018
8

Twitch participates in active censorship because of their vague TOS. People should not be willing to support them financially. The only good thing about it is that virtually the entire streaming audience lands on this one site.

[Edited by Neel2000, December 01]

What is Twitch?

Twitch.tv is a live-streaming portal that primarily focuses on video gaming, but also used for many other purposes.

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Twitch information

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    US flagAmazon
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription that costs up to $6 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.7
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  • News

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Bulgarian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Vietnamese

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Twitch was added to AlternativeTo by Jan Klass on Nov 6, 2011 and this page was last updated Dec 20, 2024. Twitch is sometimes referred to as TwitchTV, twitch.tv.