Justin.tv, the life-streaming service that eventually grew into Twitch, was shut down back in 2014. Since then, many Twitch users have asked when the company would release the old Justin.tv usernames – requests that escalated after Twitch introduced the ability to change usernames earlier this year. As it turns out, Twitch is now doing just that. In an email sent confidentially to Twitch Partners (which was shared with TechCrunch), Twitch announced it’s releasing the nearly 30 million inactive usernames associated with the old Justin.tv brand. This will effectively put some of the most desirable usernames back into action – names that have been tied up for years. It hasn’t made much sense to keep the usernames locked up for so long, especially since many of the old JTV names are associated with user accounts that never even moved to Twitch. When Twitch first announced it would allow username changes, a … Continue reading Twitch is finally releasing the nearly 30 million usernames associated with Justin.tv