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Twitch caps streamers’ storage at 100 hours of highlights and uploads


Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads, and will delete content if a channel exceeds the limit.

The company said it’s introducing the change because highlights haven’t been effective in driving discovery or engagement, and because storage is costly. Introducing this 100-hour storage limit, which impacts less than 0.5% of active channels on Twitch and accounts for less than 0.1% of hours watched, helps us manage resources more efficiently, maintain support of Highlights and Uploads, and continue to invest in new features and improvements to more effective viewer engagement tools like Clips and the mobile feed.” Some streamers have taken to social media to share their discontent with the decision, with manypointing out that Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is a market leader in cloud services through its AWS platform.

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