Newsbrief: Twitch is working to make its library of livestreams more searchable using metadata gleaned from games, starting with
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Twitch viewers looking to watch someone play
CS:GO can now filter the game's Twitch stream
directory by both the map currently being played and the Skill (Valve's
CS:GO player-ranking system) of the streamer.
The data is pulled from a Steam API that feeds data to Twitch when a broadcaster chooses to link their Steam account to their Twitch account. The two companies
announced the feature last summer, though at the time they highlighted it as a means whereby viewers could earn items in Steam while watching
Dota 2 tournaments on Twitch.
The company later added support for
CS:GO tournament rewards, and has been testing these advanced
CS:GO directory filters for some time. Today, Twitch rolled the metadata filters out to all users alongside a
blog post with more details on how the system works.
