Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the Twitch streamer who exploded in recognition in current weeks, teamed up with rapper Drake final night time for a couple of rounds of Fortnite.
Ninja usually brings in round 60,000 to 90,000 viewers per stream, which is greater than what different huge names like Dr. DisRespect, and Shroud pull in often.
However, these numbers, already nicely past what the vast majority of Twitch streamers see, had been dwarfed by final night time’s stream.
The motive being that rapper Drake joined Ninja to play Fortnite. This is the actual Drake and every little thing, and he joined Ninja on Discord to speak in regards to the sport, and a few tangents like his opinion on pineapple pizza.
The stream’s first milestone was reached shortly after it went stay, with 200,000 viewers. After a couple of audio points had been resolved, the quantity jumped to 400,000. Drake then tweeted out a hyperlink to the stream, and that’s when it made one other leap to 600,000 viewers. The highest level was someplace within the 630,000 vary.
Ninja was enjoying on PC, whereas Drake was on PS4. Fortnite does help cross-platform play, however not between PS4 and Xbox One. PC gamers can play with both, in fact.
Ninja’s figures beat the earlier document for a person streamer, which Dr. DisRespect set (387,000) throughout his first stream after getting back from a break.
Ninja additionally lately hit 100,000 subscribers on Twitch, and stories of his success made him so well-liked that Drake began following his social channels, which is probably going how this stream got here alongside.
In different Fortnite information, Epic printed the total notes for patch 3.3 earlier as we speak.
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