![]() ![]() After marginalized creators were repeatedly targeted by hateful bot attacks, some streamers rallied the community to boycott the platform on September 1 for #ADayOffTwitch, which caused the platform’s peak concurrent viewership to drop 1 million viewers below average. ![]() These leaks follow a rocky few months for the Amazon-owned platform, which - as of earlier this year - represented 72.3% of live video game streaming viewership, remaining dominant over platforms like Facebook Gaming and YouTube Gaming. For many streamers, this leak exacerbates existing tensions over pay transparency in streaming and safety on Twitch. The streaming platform said in a blog post that the leak was caused by an error in a Twitch server configuration change, which was then accessed by a malicious third party. Twitch confirmed yesterday that a massive cache of internal data, including creator payouts, was published online after a breach. ![]()
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