Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by cloudjacker on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:16PM
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Also worth noting that all the gaming console users have Twitch integrated and won't be going to Google to find it
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by rjvir on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:19PM
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The graph is relative.
The idea is that Twitch viewership is correlated with Google searches - not that Google search is responsible for all Twitch traffic.
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by cloudjacker on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:57PM
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and I'm telling you why the correlation could decouple making your data point meaningless
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by sushid on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:17PM
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So have "Google" and "Amazon." Most people do not search these terms to get to the website and we know Amazon and Google have been doing well in the last two years.
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by sergiotapia on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:17PM
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twitch is twitch. Who really searches for Twitch, instead of just visiting the site and searching for content there?
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by rjvir on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:21PM
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That proportion is not too relevant for this graph. The graph is relative.
Even if a only a small percentage of Twitch users use Google search to access Twitch, the graph would be somewhat indicative of it's growth.
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by wongarsu on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:54PM
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The question is: does the probability that a given user accesses Twitch over Google search go down as the user uses Twitch more often? Does it so more than on other sites, maybe because regular twitch use promotes other ways of engagement (phone app, console app, email notifications, twitter links from the streamers, etc)?
If 90% of new Twitch users reach Twitch over Google, 30% of one week old users and only 5% of one month old users, then a flat graph could actually indicate growth.
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by fmp on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:30PM
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People who have just heard of twitch and want to know what it is? And whether those people eventually become twitch customers or not, their existence is a sign that twitch is still gaining mindshare in the broader community.
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by johansch on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:30PM
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Hmm, this is interesting, for FB as a comparison:
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by nl on Saturday August 27, 2016 @06:57AM
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Yep, corresponds almost perfectly with the rise of their mobile app.
Re:Twitch could be a $20B company within Amazon
by serge2k on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:26PM
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Do you not know seemingly endless amounts of people who visit every site by googling the name?
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2014-08-25%202016...