Twitch (twitch.tv) is a streaming and online TV site. Twitch hosts many gamers who live stream the games they play while others watch. Many gamers tune in to the live streams to watch gamers play games they don’t yet have or because they are interested in the games being played. Twitch was founded by Emmett Shear, Justin Kan, Michael Seibel, Kyle Vogt, and Kevin Lin. In 2014, Amazon acquired Twitch and remains the parent company in 2023.
ALTERNATIVES
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HISTORY
As of September 2023, twitch.tv has 992.6 million monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates twitch.tv was founded for the first time on July 5, 2002. Wayback Machine data shows twitch.tv wasn’t saved very often until 2011 when it started getting saved frequently. Wikipedia says twitch.tv was founded in 2011 which suggests the domain likely changed owners between 2002 and 2011.
Is twitch.tv Safe?
Here, I analyzed twitch.tv for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:
Sucuri says twitch.tv has no issues. Results: Sucuri scan for twitch.tv.
Security hardening flaws:
- Missing security header to prevent
Content Typesniffing. Affected pages:
https://m.twitch.tv/?desktop-redirect=true for iPad’s UA- Missing
Strict-Transport-Securitysecurity header. Affected pages:
https://m.twitch.tv/?desktop-redirect=true for iPad’s UA
Unmask Parasites says twitch.tv is clean. Results: Unmask Parasites scan for twitch.tv.
VirusTotal says twitch.tv is clean. Results: VirusTotal scan for twitch.tv.
URLVoid says twitch.tv passed all blocklist engines. Results: URLVoid scan for twitch.tv.
In conclusion, twitch.tv was close to getting graded as very safe, but for security hardening flaws on two affected pages. OVERALL GRADE: Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: twitch.tv