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Twitch Plays Pokémon was a huge phenomenon for the streaming service, and it has shared a few of the viewership stats surrounding the 16 day journey.
According to a post on Twitch's blog, the stream had more than nine million viewers. Of those nine million, 1,165,140 participated issuing more than 122,000,000 commands. At its peak, there were 121,000 concurrent viewers, and the stream had a total of 36 million views overall by the time it completed.
You can see the full post about Twitch Plays Pokémon on Twitch's official blog.
[Source: Twitch]
Our Take
That's a whole lot of people watching other people play a video game that released in 1998. Streaming video games online becomes a bigger and more popular phenomenon every day.
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