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So, Drake just helped to smash a Twitch record
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So, Drake just smashed a Twitch record playing Fortnite. Really.
Late Wednesday night, the hip hop superstar jumped on Twitch to play the popular “battle royale” game with big time streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins and rapper Travis Scott.
The squad casually drummed up over 600,000 live viewers at one point.
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While Mashable has reached out to Twitch to officially confirm that this is a record for the streaming platform, the previous record was held by Dr. DisRespect, who reached a total of 388,000 concurrent viewers in February 2018.
playing fort nite with @ninja https://t.co/OSFbgcfzaZ
— Drizzy (@Drake) March 15, 2018 Read more…
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