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youtube buying twitch for a billion -- (link)

Posted by Remlik (aka remlik) May 18 '14, 15:40

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link (kotaku.com)

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Also ATT buying Direct Tv -- (link) - eag May 18, 16:35
bubble bubble bust so soon -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk May 18, 16:20
Okay I just logged in and spent 5 minutes watching people play a video game. I don't get it. As a kid I only watched others so that I would get a - Bacon May 18, 16:07 6
- It's also a way to broadcast to an audience with real-time chat for feedback - TWuG May 18, 16:24 2
  - So next Ster get together broadcast live with chat and feedback - eag May 18, 16:32 1
    - Well, for one, a video record for blackmail. :-) -- nm - TWuG May 18, 16:37
- Seriously, pretty lame. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) May 18, 16:13 1
  - I think it might be age thing. There were/are those who have no interest in watching the X Games. Think of watching video games similarly - JD May 18, 16:49
- "Now what I'm with isn't *it*, and what's *it* seems weird and scary to me"....nm - x May 18, 16:13
I need to make something that is next to useless for majority of the planet and sell it for a few mill. -- nm - Will Hunting May 18, 15:47 1
- and we shall call it. SLACKERTALK -- nm - Bacon May 18, 15:48
Google owns Youtube so isn't Google buying twitch -- nm - Bacon May 18, 15:44 1
- you are correct sir, it says so in the opening statement. just noticed it -- nm - Remlik May 18, 15:46
I'm getting concerned. I'm barely aware of what this is and it's being bought for a billion. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 15:44 8
- Of all the purchases lately, this one was worth the money, and Microsoft made a mistake letting it go. -- nm - Max May 18, 18:17
- by some measures of web traffic, twitch is 4th behind only netflix, google and apple... - x May 18, 15:56 1
  - Yup. It's one of the biggest sites you don't know about. -- nm - Tim May 18, 15:58
- Game streaming portal, mostly video games like League of Legends and a ton of others. I was just watching the Magic Pro Tour this morning. -- nm - Tim May 18, 15:45 4
  - yeah, i was watching people play dark souls 2 yesterday. some of their streams pull big numbers....nm - x May 18, 15:48 3
    - I wonder how many people would watch the Burchs play Borderlands 2. - the wrong element, bad guy May 18, 15:58
    - It turns out when I was 12 that I was correct when I wondered if playing games was a viable career choice. - Tim May 18, 15:53 1
      - i just read that for three weeks in march, the titanfall numbers amounted to ten million minutes....nm - x May 18, 15:57
shit just got real. -- nm - Tim May 18, 15:42

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