Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, pictured here in 2018, became one of the best-known streamers as the format's popularity exploded.
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- Amazon paid about $1 billion for Twitch in 2014, hoping it would become the next YouTube or Instagram.
- That hasn't panned out. It loses money on very modest (by Amazon's standards) revenue.
- Does that mean Twitch screwed up? Or that livestreaming is less big than people thought it was going to be? Could be both.
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