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Twitch is the largest live streaming platform in the world.
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In 2021, Twitch received 31 million visitors per day.
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The social network has an average audience of more than 2.5 million viewers.
Social networks have become a primary tool for many people to generate money, which is why updates on them are important. Recently, it was announced that Twitch will no longer allow broadcasts of 49 video games that are prohibited from being broadcast on the platform.
Twitch is the largest live streaming platform in the world and since its inception it has specialized in broadcasting video game games and other types of content.
Although it is one of the newest social networks to become popular, it currently has millions of users, and according to StreamLabs’ Live Streaming Industry Report, it highlighted that in 2021, the platform will dominate the market for live video views and broadcasts.
In the same sense, according to data from the platform itself, Twitch receives 31 million visitors per day and has an average audience of more than 2.5 million viewers. In addition, every month, some 8 million content creators perform live on the platform, and in 2021 more than 15 million people were encouraged to make their first broadcast on Twitch.
What’s new on Twitch
The digital platform revealed a list of the names of video games that will not be able to broadcast because they all have the “Adults Only” rating, issued by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), an American institution that rates video games by age depending on their content. .
It was learned that the games banned by Twitch have in common their high sexual content or references to it, in addition to extreme or graphic violence, content that is not allowed in broadcasts.
Likewise, the platform mentioned that in the case of some titles that were not rated by this institution, Twitch verifies their content with the help of its moderators to determine whether or not they have any characteristics that may be restricted under the community guidelines. that has the platform.
“In case they have content that is considered extreme or that violates their policies, immediately enter the list of games prohibited for including themes such as incitement to hate, sex, nudity, gore (bloody images) or extreme violence,” it says.
As well, some of the games that are not rated “Adults Only” by the ESRB, but are still on the banned list are 3DXChat, Radiator 2, Cobra Club, Artificial Academy, Artificial Girl, Second Life, among others.
Depending on the platform, if a Twitch user sees that a creator is broadcasting content from one of these games or any other that is not on the list, but that has similar characteristics, they can report it in the Report Live Broadcast option and do Click on the Game Prohibited tab.
And this is how social networks are paying more attention to what content creators transmit, who are increasingly followed by millions in the world and have an influence on what they do.
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