Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had more than her fair
share of viral moments, and the
social media-savvy politician just added yet another to that list of online hits with one of the biggest debut Twitch streams ever.
On Tuesday night, the 31-year-old congresswoman joined the Amazon-owned live-streaming platform, where she played a few rounds of the
popular online game “Among Us,” for an event aimed at encouraging more young people to vote in the Nov. 3 election. At one point during the over three-hour live-streamed event, more than
430,000 people were reportedly watching Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitch channel and the event averaged over 325,000 concurrent viewers.
That peak in viewership would make the congresswoman’s Twitch debut one of the most-watched events in the platform’s nine-year history, according to the website
TwitchTracker, putting Ocasio-Cortez in a similar league as gamer streaming stars like
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. Blevins still holds the record for the most-watched Twitch stream by an individual streamer after more than
600,000 viewers tuned in to watch his 2018 “Fortnite” battle with the rapper Drake.
Ocasio-Cortez’s event ended up as the fifth most-watched individual Twitch stream ever, according to gaming site
Dexerto, with past events like gamer
Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek’s return to Twitch in August (after a stint with Microsoft’s now-defunct streaming platform, Mixer) also outpacing the congresswoman’s debut.
