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http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/24/googles-1b-purchase-of-twitch-confirmed-joins-youtube-for-new-video-empire/

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-twitch-buy-2014-7

It's Google+ Time!

seeing as though google links up all there websites that means i'm probably going to end up with a twitch account, even if i didn't personally sign up for it

They won't add G+, Google themselves have said that integration on YouTube was a poor decision and are planning on removing it. Besides, Twitch has had decent account management for as long as they've been around, no need to add anything to it.

If anything, I'd like to see if this means they'll finally transfer the iframes from Flash to HTML5; Twitch streams play complete havoc on my in-game FPS when I'm watching one because Flash uses so much processing power.

Does this mean we'll no longer see "gamer gurls" showing their cleavage to horny teenage boys?

Google: The Internet/Technology counterpart of Disney.

@Twilitlord

They won’t add G+, Google themselves have said that integration on YouTube was a poor decision and are planning on removing it.

Source? I don't believe this at all.

That article is no more trustworthy than the first article that sparked the rumors to begin with. No comment from Twitch or Google and this news comes from "a familiar source"? Yeah, sounds like good journalism to me.

Also, moving to Websites board.

You know we wouldn't be anticipating any drastic changes if it was Yahoo buying Twitch. They hardly messed around with Tumblr's setup. I have a strong hunch the big G will try to integrate Twitch with Youtube if ever they will buy the site. I dunno how ready we will be with the new setup once that happens.

@Taryn:
The announcement was made sometime after the creator of Google Plus, Vic Gundotra, left the company. Around 3 months ago. Link To Article

Be sure to read the article thoroughly. No announcement was made in the article, and Google even denied Vic leaving would have any impact on their mission.

“Today’s news has no impact on our Google+ strategy--we have an incredibly talented team that will continue to build great user experiences across Google+, Hangouts, and Photos.”

This is not a news article, merely an editorial saying "we think this will happen". It even uses a Techcrunch editorial as a source. Personally I find it highly unlikely that GOOG will back off of G+ integration anytime soon.