Who founded Twitch and Why?

Twitch was founded by an American internet entrepreneur by the name Justin Kan. He owns both Twitch and Justin.tv. Twitch is an online platform for video game streaming. Justin Kan actually started with Justin.tv in 2005, a type of reality show where people's life will be transmitted live for people to watch. However, Justin Kan created Twitch in 2011. Twitch was created as a platform where video game enthusiasts can go and stream video games online.

While Twitch initially started as a video game streaming site, a lot of interesting programs have been added to it. This means Twitch is not only meant for video games streaming, but you can also stream things like music, TV series and other interesting programs from different channels. Today, there are a lot of streamers on Twitch, usually about 15 million every day. The good part is that you can also make money as a streamer through their affiliate program.