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It then added Twitch’s own feature set on top, including its social offerings.

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This will be streamed from /TwitchPresents, the site’s new home for its TV marathons.Ĭombined, these efforts are meant to give gamers a reason to stay on the site and continue to engage with its content, even when the video game streams they came to see have ended.Īs part of its rebranding of the Curse app, Twitch says it kept its popular features, like screen sharing, voice and video calling and community server creation.

It also has dabbled with streaming non-gaming video content, including shows from Bob Ross, Julia Child and Amazon Prime Video, and, as of March 14, it’s adding the Power Rangers to that mix with an 831-episode marathon. The company has also rolled out other social features, like Communities, which focus on gamers’ shared interests - including those that extend beyond video games IRL, which lets vloggers host broadcasts to directly talk with fans and Twitch Creative, where broadcasters can show off artistic endeavors, whether or not they’re directly related to gaming. The most notable being this week’s launch of Pulse, a Twitter-like social stream right on the homepage that lets users share updates, including text and multimedia from services like Vimeo, YouTube, Imgur and Gfycat, as well as Twitch. The launch, which is scheduled for March 16, 2017, follows several recent moves aimed at giving Twitch more of a social networking feel. It also is further representation of how Twitch is re-imagining itself as more than just a place to watch live video - it’s working to become more of a true social network. One of the larger goals with Twitch Desktop App is to give streamers’ followers a place to connect, even when the streamer is offline. Twitch says the now “enhanced” app will include community servers, voice and video messaging and game content distribution.

This is actually a rebranding of Curse App - an application Twitch acquired from the video game community and software maker Curse last year. However, Johnston says Twitch will face competition from apps that crowdsource data automatically, for example, by guessing a phone user’s speed for traffic apps and using a phone’s sensors to guess what they are doing.Hot on the heels of rolling out its own version of Twitter, called Pulse, video game streaming site Twitch today announced its new desktop application, Twitch Desktop App. Allowing coffee shops or the like to ask brief questions to immediately gauge the success of promotions, new products and store layout, perhaps with some kind of compensation given based on the questions answered.” “The killer use-case for Twitch may well be consumer surveys. “Twitch’s process of solicitation is uniquely mobile in that it allows tasks to be tailored to an individual’s location and ties into the frequent and rapid interactions individuals have with their mobile devices,” Johnston says.

Samuel Johnston, spokesman for Open Signal, a London based company using phone apps to draw up crowdsourced maps of phone signal strength, finds the idea behind Twitch compelling. “Surveys can now be created by anyone and important things can be learned quickly and from a large amount of people using mobile phones.” “Crowdsourced processes in general might be tedious, but when shown one at a time on Twitch’s mobile unlock screen, it encourages participation without enforcing any time commitment,” Vaish says. This negligible additional mental load gives such apps great potential when it comes to crowdsourcing, says team member Rajan Vaish of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who will reveal the app at a computer-human interaction conference in Toronto, Canada, in April. The team thinks the idea will catch on because each task is so fast: a regular swipe-to-unlock move took users 1.4 seconds and the quickest task – picking one of six pictures to say what you were doing at that moment – took 1.6 seconds. These users completed a total of 11,200 tasks in three weeks. Bernstein’s team put Twitch on Google’s Play app store and recruited 82 of the people who downloaded it.