YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by leccine on Sunday May 18, 2014 @10:27PM (#7765362)

First of all, you need Google+ in order to use Youtube (very hard without it) while people just want to watch streams, they don't care about failed social networks. This is why twitch was great.

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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by Cthulhu_ on Monday May 19, 2014 @03:58AM (#7766245)

IIRC (but correct me if I'm wrong), Youtube works just fine without a login; 18+ content, rating and commenting won't work though.

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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by k00pa on Monday May 19, 2014 @04:08AM (#7766278)

Well its possible, but its certainly not easy. It asks you to merge your G+ account all the time and is generally just annoying.

I ended up creating 3 pages in g+ for my channel that I don't even use, when trying to avoid G+ Youtube integration.

Then I just gave up and merged them.

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