TwitCasting is a
livestreaming
Livestreaming is streaming media simultaneously recorded and broadcast in real-time over the internet. It is often referred to simply as streaming. Non-live media such as video-on-demand, vlogs, and YouTube videos are technically streamed, but no ...
service operated by Moi Co., Ltd., headquartered in
Tokyo,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. In early 2013, TwitCasting was developed as a way to use the
Twitter feed to stream content from
smartphones directly onto a user's channel. As of July 2021, it had over 33 million registered users. As of March 2020, it had the most
monthly active users among livestreaming apps in Japan, according to App Ape Lab analytics.
History
On February 3, 2010, ''TwitCasting Live for iPhone'' was launched and linked with Twitter.
On April 6, 2011, ''TwitCasting Live for Android'' was launched. In February 2012, after a company split, the operating company was changed from Sidefeed Co., Ltd. to Moi Co., Ltd. In May 2013, Moi Co., Ltd. raised ¥64.8 million from East Ventures and Masao Itō (User Local CEO), and in June 2014, $5 million from
Sinar Mas Group and East Ventures. In September 2015, the number of livestreams exceeded 200 million.
On February 18, 2018, "TwitCasting Kiitos", a function that allows listeners to support the planning of live broadcasters, was released, In December 2018, the service had over 20 million registered users. In April 2018, TwitCasting began accepting
virtual currency.
In April 2019, a comprehensive license agreement regarding the use of copyrighted works of
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles.
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade playing car ...
was concluded. A gameplay commentary app TwitCasting Games was released on August 8, 2019. A screen sharing function for PC was released in July 2020.
In March 2021, TwitCasting began broadcasting
anime with titles from the ''
Show by Rock!!'' series. ''Show by Rock!! Stars!!'' attracted over 200,000 viewers.
In October of the same year, the first movie began broadcasting on the service, ''
Sumikko Gurashi
Sumikko Gurashi (すみっコぐらし) is a set of fictional characters produced by the Japanese company San-X. The name roughly translates to "life in the corner". The main Sumikko characters are Shirokuma, a polar bear who dislikes the cold, Pe ...
': Tobidasu Ehon to Himitsu no ko''.
Overview
Livestreaming on the service is possible from
iPhone and
Android
Android may refer to:
Science and technology
* Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human
* Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system
** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...
devices as well as
PC.
Facebook and Twitter can be used to notify followers about the livestream. The streaming method can be selected from a video livestream and a radio livestream (only audio is distributed but a still image is displayed on the screen). Registration and login are required for streaming and commenting. However, logging in is not required to watch a livestream.
Registration is possible via syncing a Twitter, Facebook, or
Instagram
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account.
Controversies
The company and other livestreaming services have been criticized for numerous incidents of users livestreaming criminal or malicious acts in order to get viewers, and responded by suspending users for their behavior.
In 2018, the
National Police Agency reported that TwitCasting had the fifth highest number of child users who had been crime victims on
social network services
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, after Twitter, Himabu,
LINE
Line most often refers to:
* Line (geometry), object with zero thickness and curvature that stretches to infinity
* Telephone line, a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system
Line, lines, The Line, or LINE may also refer to:
Arts ...
, and Marin Chat (now ORCA).
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See also
*
Niconico
*
FC2 FC2 can refer to:
* FC2 (portal), an Internet content portal, frequently used by people in the Asian region
* FC2: an EEG electrode site according to the 10-20 system
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References
Android (operating system) software
Entertainment companies established in 2012
Japanese companies established in 2012
Internet properties established in 2010
IOS software
Live streaming services
Livestreaming software