Twitch Introduces Pulse News Feed

Twitch, Amazon’s video streaming service, introduces Pulse. This is a new feature in the form of a news feed where the streamers and users can post text messages, videos and images in real time.

According to Sheila Raju, communications manager at Twitch, Pulse is meant to connect streamers and viewers more and more easily. According to her, the service is always “on” and is intended to share video clips, highlights, schedules, photos and other things with viewers. The service is therefore not only for textual updates and will support links from, for example, Vimeo, YouTube, Twitch, Imgur and Gfycat.

Posts will be displayed in chronological order. The main difference from the existing feeds is that they only show content that streamers post; Pulse also offers this capability to non-streamers, showing users posts from everyone they follow or be friends with. Pulse will also be available on Twitch’s mobile app. The service will be released on Tuesday for all users who are logged in via the Twitch homepage. Ultimately, it will be available to everyone in the coming weeks.

Everything streamers post in their feed will be made available to all followers of the channel via Pulse. Channel editors and moderators have the ability to delete posts in Pulse in their channels. Streamers have additional options to restrict who can comment on their posts. Emoticons can be used by anyone. Streamers can post dashboard messages through a broadcaster; viewers can do this via a dedicated field on the Twitch front page.

With this new feature, Twitch hopes that users will stay more on the video platform and not turn to Twitter or Facebook, for example, to follow what their favorite streamers are doing and communicating.