Twitch is testing a new Discovery Feed that was first announced
last month, with select users where they can explore content from creators on
the platform. According to Twitch, the feed will initially display videos in a
horizontal format and will later be evolved to show them in a vertical format. Smells
like TikTok, doesn’t it?
Twitch will begin testing ‘popular and featured’ content in
the Discovery Feed and moving forward, will include ‘exclusively featured’
clips in the feed. For now, the integration is only a ‘limited experience’ as
described by the platform itself, meaning that it will help it gather important
feedback as well as train its algorithm to ensure improved user experience.
In another X post, Twitch added that creators can become part of the Discovery Feed experiments by selecting clips that they want to add in the ‘featured’ pool. This option is now available to all streamers and editors on Twitch.
Users can also expect to see a new Stories feature sometime
soon perhaps, since it was announced alongside Discovery Feed in July.
Our first Discovery Feed experiment starts rolling out to select users today
— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) August 22, 2023
This limited experience will help us train our algorithm & get your feedback
Feature Clips after every stream to get discovered in the Feed, even if you're not in the experiment
See 🧵 for details 👇 https://t.co/MULzug74g0 pic.twitter.com/s0UEhMOD6Y
