This could either end up working really well or crashing and burning but still kinda appealing. The reasons it could be good is for the sake of mobile devices, some mobile devices can't play past broadcasts on Twitch and some can't even watch the streams themselves, however if Youtube merges it's video source codewith Twitch, any mobile device will be able to play everything as if it was on Youtube. Another thing is that Youtube's own 'ivestreaming functionality is awful compared to Twitch and Twitch could upgrade it for them.



The reason this could crash though is for the following reasons.



Youtube's livestream functionality is terrible in comparison to Twitch's so if there's a point where they merge too much then Twitch could have just as bad of a stream function.



Google+, didn't you hate it when you were forced to make a Google+ account just to be able to comment on videos? And didn't you hate it when the process duplicated your account if you DID have Google+ and merged it with your Youtube account? Well now Twitch has a chance at suffering the same fate.



But you know what? In the end the negatives won't matter because just like with Youtube, we will complain non stop, and as much as we claim to hate Google and/or Youtube's guts, in the end we know we'll just keep coming back anyway.