The popular social network for live video streaming of video game players launches Pulse, a feature that largely recalls Twitter.
Would Twitch dream in Twitter players? The popular video channel of gamers and Amazon property, which has more than 50 million users each month, unveiled Tuesday a new feature that clearly recalls the social network to the blue bird. Named Pulse, this new option displays on the home page of the site a thread of short messages classified in chronological chronological order.
Features close to Twitter. Twitch hopes to offer a newswire out of the temporality of the live it usually broadcasts. In a post published on his blog, the service explains "launch a feature that will make it easier for streamers and viewers to exchange between them, whether live or not". In order not to be too monotonous, Pulse users will also be able to share videos, snippets of live video, ads and photos with their messages.
Users with a channel and streaming live video will see their messages appear on both the channel page and the Pulse thread implemented on the home page. An operation that recalls, again, that of Twitter with the pages of each user.
What about Amazon's ambitions? The launch of this feature comes a few months after Amazon's takeover of Twitch while the e-commerce giant has never communicated its plans for the live video broadcast service.
And while Twitch is mostly used at home during games, the company focuses on mobility. Pulse will also be available on the mobile application Twitch. The arrival of such a functionality could thus aim to bring an existing community closer together by encouraging its users to better and communicate with each other, both at home and in the field of mobility. With Pulse, the objective is clear: to create a social network in its own right.