Twitch introducing Stories and Discovery Feed to boost offline community interaction
Twitch is introducing a new Stories feature, providing streamers with a further way to reach their followers when not livestreaming.
Stories will last for 24 hours and appear on the Twitch mobile app, similar to other social media platforms.
The news was shared at this year's TwitchCon Paris event, along with other new features joining the platform.
Stories will launch in October and be covered by the Twitch Community Guidelines to ensure streamer safety.
And here’s a preview of stories on Twitch ✨ pic.twitter.com/Z2ejsb5nfX
Another forthcoming feature is the Discovery Feed: a scrollable feed in the Twitch app consisting of short streamer clips, whether a streamer is live or not.
The aim is to improve discoverabilty on the platform, as viewers can easily scroll through to find new streamers. As such, streamers will be able to tag their clips as a favourite, which will be prioritised in the Discovery Feed.
Alongside this, the clip editor will be improved, including access via mobile and the ability to export clips directly to rival platform TikTok.
Many of these improvements are designed for mobile first, but Twitch isn't aiming to be a complete social media platform.
«We're not building the Feeds to compete with TikTok, we don't want to build a platform where people just come and consume the feed for an hour a day,» product VP Jeremy Forrester told Eurogamer.
«We want to utilise things like short form content and UX that people are familiar with in order to help streamers grow their live stream community. For us livestream will continue to be the heart of everything that Twitch does.
»Lots of streamers have to actively encourage their Twitch viewers to go follow them on other platforms so they can continue to
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