As of April 2024, ninja (real name: Richard Tyler Blevins) was the most followed live streamer on Twitch with over 19.02 million followers. Ninja saw a meteoric rise to fame when he was one of the first top-ranked players to stream the then newly-release Fortnite Battle Royale at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018. Second-ranked auronplay (real name: Raúl Álvarez Genes) was ranked second with 16.23 million followers on Twitch.
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Social Blade. "Most Popular Twitch Channels Worldwide as of April 2024, by Number of Followers (in Millions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 3 Apr 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/486914/most-popular-twitch-channels-ranked-by-followers/
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Most popular Twitch channels worldwide as of April 2024, by number of followers (in millions) [Graph], Social Blade, April 3, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/486914/most-popular-twitch-channels-ranked-by-followers/