Twitch: what is the platform that livestreamed the Florida shooting?
by Keza MacDonald from Technology | The Guardian on (#3XR29)
Twitch, where majority of broadcasters play video games for an audience, was the first to unintentionally air a shooting live
When two people were killed and 11 injured at a Madden football video game tournament at a bar in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday, the incident joined the list of hundreds of tragic shootings that have already taken place in the US this year. But it was the first to occur during a video game tournament, and the first to have been unintentionally broadcast live online.
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