Still no official word on that acquisition reported by Variety last month, but YouTube and Twitch are getting together in a different way. When Twitch broadcasters who also use YouTube turn on a new feature called Live Annotations, a notification like this will automatically appear over their YouTube videos once they start a new live broadcast. Twitter and Facebook already do the same thing, but as tweets/status updates rather than notifications that pop up over their normal content.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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