Title
Audience and Streamer Participation at Scale on Twitch
Abstract
Large-scale streaming platforms such as Twitch are becoming increasingly popular, but detailed audience-streamer interaction dynamics remain unexplored at scale. In this paper, we perform a mixed methods study on a dataset with over 12 million audience chat messages and 45 hours of streamed video to understand audience participation and streamer performance on Twitch. We uncover five types of streams based on size and audience participation styles, from small streams with close streamer-audience interactions to massive streams with the stadium-style audiences. We discuss challenges and opportunities emerging for streamers and audiences from each style and conclude by providing data-backed design implications that empower streamers, audiences, live streaming platforms, and game designers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3342220.3344926
Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
Keywords
Field
DocType
audience participation, data analysis, games, twitch
World Wide Web,Computer science,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6885-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claudia Flores-Saviaga100.34
Jessica Hammer26825.95
Juan Pablo Flores300.68
Joseph Seering4287.68
Stuart Reeves587166.81
Saiph Savage610416.32