Twitch for Musicians Second Edition. Karen Allen
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owners can create highlights from archived shows, which are like clips but can be longer in length. Clips are more popular. You can delete clips and highlights regardless of who posted them.
Followers
This is who is following you. Anyone can see this. You will always see a count and you can click on it to see a list of which users are following you. Followers are different from subscribers. It’s free to follow and just informs the viewers when you are live.
Streamers can offer perks to followers, like limiting chat activity to followers only. This is helpful when you have thousands of viewers at once and the chat is moving too fast to read. You can also program it so new followers have to wait a certain amount of time after following to post to the chat. That helps discourage trolls. You probably won’t need to do either of those things when you start out.
Follow/Heart and Bell
To follow a channel, click the “(heart) Follow” button in the top navigation.
Once you’ve followed, the Follow button turns into a heart and a bell appears next to it. If you click the heart again, you’ll unfollow the channel. You can click the bell to turn on or off notifications of when the viewer goes live. You can also go to your Account Profile’s Settings > Notifications to change how Twitch notifies you.
When a channel you follow is live, it will show in the left-side navigation of the site with a red dot next to its name regardless whether notifications are on.
Subscribe
Streamers who have Affiliate or Partner status can offer paid subscriptions to their channel and share in the revenue collected. Subscriptions have three tiers: $4.99/month, $9.99/month, and $24.99/month. The difference is mostly how many and what kind of custom emotes and custom badges you can make available to your subscribers. You can also make some streams and on-demand videos viewable to subscribers only.
If you want to subscribe to a channel, click the subscribe button in the Channel Page navigation. You’ll see the subscription options pop up.
If you have Amazon Prime, you can subscribe to one channel per month for free. Log into your Amazon Prime account, then go to www.twitchprime.com and connect your Amazon account. When you subscribe to a channel, you’ll now see the option to do it with your Prime account.
If you don’t see a subscribe option, the streamer is not an Affiliate or Partner yet.
Video Player
When you are live, the Video Player will show your stream. When you are offline, you have a couple options. You could upload a static image with information about your stream, as this streamer has done.
You could host another channel, which means that channel’s currently live stream would show in your Video Player. Streamers do this to support other streamers. There are settings to automatically change the Video Player from an showing an image to hosting. This is what it looks like on your page when you are hosting another channel. There are indicators on the video and in the chat.
SamuelTuckerYoung being hosted by another streamer
Panels
Panels are those informational blocks below the Video Player. Twitch has a module where you can upload images and text and move the Panel order around. In this example, About, Requests, and Donate are each individual Panels. I’ll explain how to create these in Chapter 4.
If your viewers are watching from a mobile device, they may not see your Panels at all because they are under a tab called Info that you have to scroll to see. The majority of Twitch users are on a desktop when they are watching, so it’s worth making the Panels look on-brand and have useful information.
THE LIVESTREAM
Your livestreams take place on your Channel Page in the Video Player and the Chat Window. Let’s dissect what is happening during a livestream.
Video Player
This is what viewers watch and it shows the streamer in real time. In this case, the streamer has chosen to use two camera angles, one head-on so she can make eye contact with viewers, and one from the side so they can see her playing. The song list, donation alert, URL, and list of who made donations are all called Overlays. Overlays are super fun and make the stream come to life.
Chat Window
The Chat Window is to the right of the video player and is where viewers communicate with each other and with the streamer (who reads the chat as they stream).
To post a message to the chat, write something in the box where it says “Send a message” then click Chat. The message gets posted to the chat chronologically with your username preceding your message.
To help manage the conversation, streamers have moderation tools to slow the speed of the chat, limit the chat to followers or subscribers only, have chat rules pop up before a viewer makes their first post, filter out certain word and phrases from posts, delete messages, and ban or block viewers. Streamers can also assign moderation privileges to other Twitch users. It is very common for popular streamers to have a number of volunteer moderators (mods) helping keep the chat clean, welcoming new viewers, posting informational messages, etc.
Chatbot & Chat Commands
Streamers can program a chatbot to automatically post messages to the chat at predetermined intervals. This is helpful since viewers join the stream at different times and may not know how the streamer prefers to take requests and donations and it’s tedious for everyone else if the streamer is explaining it to each new viewer. Chatbot messages can also be things like links to the streamer’s Instagram, merch page, Spotify profile, etc.
In the example above, StreamElements is the chatbot. There are many chatbot services and they mostly work the same. They can automatically post pre-programmed