Twitch Outage Hits During GTA 6 Trailer Drop

Twitch faced considerable service disruptions on Thursday afternoon, reporting issues across multiple areas of its platform. The outage coincided with a surge in traffic following the highly anticipated release of the Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay trailer. This generated significant interest, with top creators like Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed drawing large audiences to their reaction streams.

Downdetector registered over 17,000 user reports detailing problems with website loading, application performance, and server connections. Twitch Support confirmed widespread instability affecting web, chat, and video services. Reports have since seen a decrease, suggesting a resolution may be underway.

Both Kai Cenat and IShowSpeed's streaming pages were reported as inaccessible around 4:45 p.m. EDT, fueling speculation about a connection to the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer's release. Newsweek has reached out to Twitch for an official statement regarding the cause of the disruption and its potential link to the trailer's immense viewership.