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"In March, Twitch represented 1.35 percent of all Internet traffic" Wow, I didn't realize Twitch had that much traffic. That's something to be proud of.
by pyrocat 12y ago
"In March, Twitch represented 1.35 percent of all Internet traffic"
Wow, I didn't realize Twitch had that much traffic. That's something to be proud of.
- gcb0 12y agothat is actually awful. their ratio of infrastructure cost to revenue will never look good.
- onedev 12y agoWell now that won't be a problem because Google has infinite compute resources.
- u124556 12y agoAnd half of that was probably twitch plays pokemon.
- jonknee 12y agoThat's slightly misleading because their traffic involves live HD video streams for rather long periods of time. For example, 1000 Twitch users will represent orders of magnitude more traffic than 1000 Facebook users. Another impressive point is since the content is live it's not as easy to CDN like Netflix/YouTube. It's still a ton of bandwidth. I'm sure they'll be happy no longer having to pay that bill.
- Chronic29 12y agoIt is not misleading. The statistic is about traffic, not users.
- jacquesm 12y agoVideo will consume bandwidth like there is no tomorrow, and the bigger the percentage of updates on a frame-to-frame basis the larger the bandwidth required. With the resolutions involved that's actually not all that bad. We came within a hair of being kicked off the net for consuming too much intercontinental bandwidth in the late 90's. The internet was simply not designed with video in mind so it's testimony to how well it has adapted that something like twitch can even exist.