Partner Plus Launch, Forbes Top Creators 2023, TikTok Live's Problem, and Linktree's Creator Report

Welcome to October - the ultimate time for jump scares, terrifying games, and... Twitchcon. After spending most of our time talking to people on-stream, being in person may be frightening for some! I know I feel feral socially since the pandemic and have some anxiety about the convention. I really should commit to doing some podcasts! (Ping me if you'd like me as a guest on something!) But with that, let's get right into this week's news!

Twitch News

As we enter the first-month creators have been eligible for Partner Plus, the help article got a big update with many new FAQs. They also launched a new dashboard to track your points and another one to track your income to the max of $100k. (One-question survey for Partners!)
The Discovery Feed experiment has been expanded to more users.
Twitchcon has launched its Android and iOS app for Twitchcon Vegas.
After over three years, Twitch updated the Safety Advisory Council. CohhCarnage is stepping down, and they have added two moderators to the council.
A new experiment for Watch Streaks will be launching shortly. It will show a progress bar and streak notifications.
Game directory pages now have a direct link to IGDB pages.
Twitch shared a detailed State of Engineering covering their various teams and what they do.
CommanderRoot shared his Q3 Twitch Streaming Stats, which show an increase in community streamers, fewer affiliates and partners streaming - and ~70 fewer staff accounts, presumably attrition, and a freezing hire.
Fortune Magazine wrote about top creators demanding Twitch fix the "legal viewbotting" issue. This issue sees some creators embedding their streams to get a massive increase in viewership.
Twitch CCO Laura Lee appeared in a throwaway interview with CNBC. She was asked questions that she did not answer - disappointing.
Twitch's recently departed Head of Global Comms has taken a job at WhatNot. This follows Twitch's Chief Product Officer taking a job there last month.