Amazon.com Inc’s livestreaming site Twitch launched its own short-form video platform, a week after Washington passed a law that threatens the future of the social-media service TikTok in the US.
Creators on Twitch typically livestream themselves playing video games or chatting with audiences, sometimes for up to eight hours at a time.
The new service, called Discovery Feed, allows viewers to scroll through short clips taken from those longer videos. It appears as a new tab on Twitch’s mobile app.
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Discovery Feed has a way to go before becoming a significant rival to TikTok. Early posts viewed by Bloomberg included an Arizona State University professor welcoming students to class and a streamer getting attacked on the street.
Unlike TikTok, Twitch creators generally do not upload their own short-form content. Instead users pick out funny or entertaining segments from creators’ livestreams and turn them into clips.
The Discovery Feed will be “personalized based on a viewer’s watch history and real-time interactions,” a Twitch spokesperson said.
Streamers will not receive a cut of the advertising revenue that appears on Discovery Feed because the commercials appear between their clips and not directly in them, the spokesperson said.
TikTok is a division of China’s ByteDance Ltd (字節跳動).
The US Congress and US President Joe Biden’s administration are forcing ByteDance to divest the service or face a ban out of concern that China’s government could use the app for propaganda or spying on US residents.
The app has 170 million monthly users in the US.
A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape US public opinion, a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,022 US adults nationwide showed.
Fifty-eight percent of respondents to the two-day poll, which was conducted online and closed on Tuesday, agreed with a statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to “influence American public opinion.”
The survey showed that 13 percent disagreed, while the rest were unsure or did not answer the question.
Republicans were more likely than Democrats to see China as using the app to affect opinions in the US, the poll found.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 50 percent of respondents supported banning TikTok, while 32 percent opposed a ban and the rest were unsure.
The poll only surveyed US adults and does not reflect the views of people under the age of 18, who make up a significant portion of TikTok's users in the US.
About six in 10 respondents aged 40 or older supported a ban, compared with about four in 10 aged 18 to 39.
The poll also showed that 46 percent agreed with a statement that China is using the app to "spy on everyday Americas," an allegation Beijing has denied.
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