Some streamers from Twitter they can attract an impressive number of viewers, especially when playing a newly released game or watching something of wide interest like sports. Millions of viewers They flocked to Twitch when the Overwatch 2 beta went live in April of this year, and during the 2020 US election season, millions of hours of coverage were watched on Twitch and YouTube.
Normally, individual channels that reach an audience of even 100 thousand viewers are remarkable, but the staggering number of viewers that reached the Spanish streamer of Twitter, IbaiJune 25 was something else.
In May, the content creator reached 1.5 million views viewers active during a boxing broadcast, and that was already a remarkable milestone. But now Ibai has exceeded that figure by reaching 3,356,074 concurrent viewersthe highest number recorded, while broadcasting another boxing event called La Velada del Año II.
The previous audience record in Twitter TheGrefg, another Spanish streamer, had it, which reached 2.4 million views viewers during a Fortnite broadcast.
Ibai, or Ibai Llanos Garatea, began his career as a League of Legends eSports streamer focused on the Spanish region. He later went on to become a content creator for G2 Esports, created his own eSports team and now has great success in Twitter.
His channel is currently the fourth most followed on the platform, with 11.1 million followers. It goes without saying that for most content creators, reaching audience numbers like these is not something that is considered as a possibility.
For many, even having a spectator is a special moment. A well-known story is that of Nick Kelly, who started his Twitter in January 2021. After broadcasting for almost an hour with no visitors, a few viewers showed up to watch his stream on Twitch and Nick wept with gratitude.
A year and a half later, the content creator has attracted 31,000 followers to his channel. There’s even a Twitter bot called @no_viewers that finds streams from Twitter with zero viewers and tweet about them so people can come say hi if they’re willing.
The goal, according to the account’s bio, is to help people “find something new and brighten someone’s day.”