- Index hide
In Mexico, according to a recent study, there are more than 80 million gamers.
Twitch has more than 26 million registered users, of which there are approximately nine million content creators.
With this, the Amazon platform is the first to suffer a drop in its services so far in 2023.
2023 has not started well for Twitch and its broad community of streamersbecause today its first fall of the year was reported.
With more than 26 million registered users, of which there are approximately nine million content creators, Twitch is undoubtedly one of the winning platforms in the pandemic.
Usually, TikTok is talked about as the main winner during the period of health emergency that was experienced all over the world. The confinement was, to a large extent, responsible for the fact that Internet users secluded themselves in their social networks, both on TikTok and on other platforms.
Similarly, one of the industries that generated significant growth was video games; thanks to platforms such as Twitch, Facebook Gaming or YouTube Gaming, the number of video game streamers grew in various parts of the world, including Mexico.
And it is that, ultimately, social practices have been modified since the arrival of the pandemic, which is why, in Mexico alone, it is estimated that by 2021 there were already 76.7 million Mexican members of the gaming community, a six percent more than in 2020.
For the sector, of course, Twitch represented a way to generate income in a period in which millions of people lost their jobs; However, according to the latest news from the Amazon platform, everything indicates that the relationship with its streamers could be severely affected.
2023 “surprises” Twitch and the platform suffers the first drop of the year
New Year and… a first fall is what 2023 has brought for Twitch, the Amazon platform that left its very broad community of streamers around the world without connection -and without making transmissions.
With this interruption, Twitch has become the first “victim” of 2023 to suffer an event of this magnitude, although the platform immediately made it known that it was working to resolve the situation, which occurred a short time later.
? We are investigating an issue preventing multiple areas of Twitch from loading.
— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) January 3, 2023
At present, thanks to the “push” generated by the pandemic, it is known that Twitch is one of the most popular platforms and the one that, in some way, protects the most recognized creators of the moment.
That is why it seems that nobody wants to be left out of this industry, as they are doing now. TikTokone of the social networks that, as twitchturned out to be one of the winners of the health emergency.
Thinking of expanding further into Latin America, TikTok has its Creators initiative ready Gamingwhich seeks that users are able to “create and publish more creative and entertaining organic content.”