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Drake & Ninja breaks twitch.tv's highest viewer count

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At 10:57pm mountain time, Drake tweeted he was playing "fort nite" with Ninja on twitch.tv/ninja

After roughly 15 minutes the stream hit over 500k viewers.

I don't believe any one streamer single handedly has reached this amount of viewers at one single time. Highest twitch view history I believe was either a CS:GO or League of Legends tournament with the same stream going over multiple channels only reaching a total of just over 1 million at one time. This streamer, although only half, is growing in viewers as the minutes pass by.

After the initial peak of up to 550k viewers at once, the stream lowered down to just shy of 540k.

 

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For those who don't know:

 

Fortnite is a battle royal game with artistic graphics and focuses on it's building function to provide players new ways to play and battle other players. The internet fights if it's better then PUBG but honestly it's a video game. Let people have their own tastes yeah? :)

 

Drake is a popular rapper with his recent hits being God's Plan, One Dance, and Hotline Bling. He only just started to hit up the gaming and streaming community the day of the stream, saying he was a fan of Ninja and wanted to play some Fortnite. After doing so many other popular guys came up and played with him.

 

 

After doing a little more research, it seems the last known record holder of most viewers on a single stream was at 388k. Drake and Ninja simply blew this out of the water within 15 minutes.

 

As people started to see Ninja the view count was around 200k with it reaching just under 400k before Drake tweeted about the stream. 

 

Drake has only been playing Fortnite for about "a month or two" according to Drake but he's doing really well in the matches he's played so far.

Twitch servers are not handling it well right now on their original website (twitch.tv) on browsers, with the view count peaking at over 560k. Fortnite is at 600k viewers with League at 55k. Biggest other streamer live right now is hovering around 20k.

 

In one moments time, Ninja stated that people can test subscribe if they have Amazon Prime and sub with prime and then this happened: https://twitter.com/Ryan915/status/974157616619417600

 

He also got to play with Travis Scott, Juju, kimdotcom which just boosted his numbers but not significantly like Drake's tweet did.

 

Currently highest steamer count is 625k

 

 

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Link to stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ninja

 

Verge article on the topic: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/15/17123424/ninja-drake-fortnite-twitch-stream-record-travis-scott-juju

 

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I apologize if I'm in the wrong section of the form. Feel free to move me if I'm a fuck up :) <3

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5 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Might not have anything to do with him. I was watching Twitch too and midway I refreshed the page only to get a black screen and no audio. Happened to every live stream at that time, and for everyone watching streams. Problem circumvented by using HTML5 player, multitwitch, Twitch mobile or desktop app.

You do realize that twitch is one single site, right?

Serious performance issues affect all users and servers.

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1 minute ago, Enderman said:

You do realize that twitch is one single site, right?

Serious performance issues affect all users and servers.

Using the desktop app for myself worked just fine but using the original website the stream never loaded. Believe his statement on alternate ways of watching is valid.

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That's actually pretty wild. It wasn't that long ago T1 set the record at 380k or something, and it's getting pretty close to being doubled.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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But twitch has issues like that all the time, wether the stream is seen by 1000 or 1 million people.

 

Edit: maybe thats just the streamers fault, not twitch's.

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7 minutes ago, -TesseracT- said:

But twitch has issues like that all the time, wether the stream is seen by 1000 or 1 million people.

 

Edit: maybe thats just the streamers fault, not twitch's.

Nah the streamer is all good. Only the OG website on broswers (Chrome 100%) only loads black screens. Twitch app works perfectly fine.

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11 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Never heard of them, but I'm happy to see a game I don't 100% suck at as the most viewed. (I hate LoL, sorry)

You never heard of drake son?

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3 minutes ago, SC2Mitch said:

You never heard of drake son?

Nope, I don't actually watch that much Twitch. I aught to though.

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2 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Nope, I don't actually watch that much Twitch. I aught to though.

As in the Rapper/Hip Hop artist Drake... With popular hits such as 'One Dance' and .... *goes to check whatever is topping the charts right now* God's Plan.

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Just now, Rupe said:

As in the Rapper/Hip Hop artist Drake... With popular hits such as 'One Dance' and .... *goes to check whatever is topping the charts right now* God's Plan.

I don't follow rap/hiphop, have no intention of starting. Never heard of that song.

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Just now, Okjoek said:

I don't follow rap/hiphop, have no intention of starting. Never heard of that song.

Neither do I, I really don't like his music, but he's like mega famous

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4 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Never heard of that song.

 

You've never heard of one of the most well know rappers/singers on the planet...

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... Wonder how much he made in revenue from that stream...

 

I don't watch much twitch. Don't like most games, don't like the people because most of them are a bag of douches, and don't like the music people stream with it.

 

Like when I play PUBG and I can hear the dude's garbage music and his stream narration in the team chat... That's why you get team killed.

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Yeah Ninja hit 3M followers recently as well. He haves quite a ton of viewers live. 

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15 minutes ago, Arc_Jester said:

You've never heard of one of the most well know rappers/singers on the planet...

well if they don't follow really on rap or really main stream music in general like my self you probably wouldn't now tbh

 

 

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2 hours ago, Okjoek said:

Never heard of them

If you know memes, He's this guy

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I dont listen to his music either. The only reason I know who he is and what his face looks like is because of this TBH. Otherwise I'd be confusing him constantly with Drake Bell (Drake n Josh FTW)

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3 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

If you know memes, He's this guy

Image result for drake meme

I dont listen to his music either. The only reason I know who he is and what his face looks like is because of this TBH. Otherwise I'd be confusing him constantly with Drake Bell (Drake n Josh FTW)

Okay yup I know that meme. Drake from Drake and Josh was actually one of the names that went through my head when I was trying to think if I knew who this was. I honestly don't know many people with the name Drake.

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1 hour ago, Methos said:

Sounds like a horrible time. One of the fakest, lamest "rappers" ever playing a bandwagon hype game with potato graphics.

I disagree that the graphics are "potato" They're not very demanding and they certainly aren't realistic, but they are aesthetically pleasing for a video game that runs as well as it does.

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1 hour ago, Methos said:

One of the fakest, lamest "rappers" ever playing a bandwagon hype game with potato graphics.

Hardly "potato" it's more optimized to allow for more users to play their game. They actually care about their game unlike other developers and push out weekly content. 

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11 hours ago, Ryujin2003 said:

... Wonder how much he made in revenue from that stream...

 

I don't watch much twitch. Don't like most games, don't like the people because most of them are a bag of douches, and don't like the music people stream with it.

 

Like when I play PUBG and I can hear the dude's garbage music and his stream narration in the team chat... That's why you get team killed.

In one moments time, Ninja stated that people can test subscribe if they have Amazon Prime and sub with prime and then this happened: https://twitter.com/Ryan915/status/974157616619417600

 

This video shows what happened but watching it live was amazing. It's assumed he gained maybe 90k subs in this stream alone. 90k*$3.5= $315,000 just from subs. There was also spam of bits and donations. It was crazy. Taxes gonna screw him over tho

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