There really isn’t anything more to this than the backend team prepping to support the Twitch drop and accidentally pushing the “dispense” button for real for a few lucky randomly-selected accounts.
Oops.
TBH, this gives me hope that when the time comes to fulfill the drops for real, there will be no unusual delays like have been seen with the other drops for some folks – because the awarding software has been live-tested.
Opimism dies hard, I guess.
I don’t think the “awarding software” was used. I think all that happened is that those items got changed from regional WoW license-based to Battlenet-based.
I would say I do doubt that is why, quite a few would of gotten it. I didn’t get my fel drake and received nothing. Grats on the windsteed though!
The Twitch promotion doesn’t start until the 9th. This happened because of what Ruffle said above.
Yeah I was thinking today was the 9th. I fixed my original reply 
You get a swiftsteed! And YOU get a Swiftsteed! And everyone here gets a Swiftsteed! Woooooooooooooooooooooo!
But why didn’t we all get one 
if we can’t get it yet with twitch how did some people get it early for free if the twitch drop hasn’t started yet?
When Blizzard did the backend update for the event those players had their Battlenet accounts get credited with it because they already had them on one regional WoW license. It’s possible if they had one they got credited with both the pet and mount because the two are awarded for watching four hours of a stream. I’ve had them both on my NA license for some time now. When this went through they showed up on my EU license too.
…I need to check my EU account too!