Twitch appears to be making good on its promise to increase discoverability. As it announced at TwitchCon Paris this past weekend, the platform plans to add a Stories feature (with 24-hour, self-deleting posts, just like on Instagram/Snapchat/formerly YouTube) and a TikTok-esque Discover Feed with short clips from streamers. Both features are ways for streamers to connect with current and new audience members even when they aren’t broadcasting. That’s a first for Twitch; because of its historical issues with discoverability, many streamers currently rely on posting VOD content to other platforms and hoping viewers there follow them back to catch a livestream.Subscribe for daily Tubefilter Top StoriesSubscribe And here’s a preview of stories on Twitch ✨ pic.twitter.com/Z2ejsb5nfX — Twitch (@Twitch) July 8, 2023 But just because Twitch is bringing in features those platforms already have doesn’t mean it’s trying to compete with them, according to VP of product Jeremy Forrester. “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,” he told Eurogamer. “We want to utilize things like short form content and UX that people are familiar with in order to
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Twitch is actually improving discoverability. Here's how. – Tubefilter.com
