Twitch is making a major change to the way the Amazon-owned streaming platform calculates its requirements to obtain partner status, now including viewership from raids from other channels. The massively popular streaming platform has seen plenty of changes in recent years to make a positive impact on its talents, shipping out a plethora of helpful features. Twitch rolled out new updates to its clipping system last month, offering the ability for users to easily make "portrait" versions of their clips and promising future upgrades. Now, one of Twitch's exclusive statuses is getting a big change.
Twitch's Partner system serves as one of the main ways for streamers on the platform to monetize their content. In order for streamers to be eligible for Partner status, Twitch requires that its creators stream for at least 25 hours across at least 12 different days while maintaining an average of 75 viewers. Twitch also features programs like "Partner Plus" offering even better incentives for some of the streaming site's most popular content creators. A new update is now making it even easier for more creators to obtain Partner status.
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