Everything You Need To Know About Twitch

Twitch

Twitch was established in June 2011 and is the premier social video network and community for gamers, video game cultures, and the creative arts. Twitch is "the forefront of live gaming" with 9.7 million daily active users, over 2 million unique viewers every month, and approximately 106 minutes watched per person per day.

Twitch is renowned for a variety of reasons. Secondly, its users take pleasure in observing their knowledgeable peers engaging in the same activity. Twitch may give prospective buyers with more information and references regarding specific titles. Lastly, Twitch enables broadcasters and their audiences to engage in real-time conversation about any familiar topic, including gaming and everyday issues.

Amazon.com acquired Twitch for $970 million and it has operated as a subsidiary ever since.

Twitch Sign Up

Step 1: Go to https://www.twitch.tv and click Sign Up at the top right corner.

Step 2: Fill out your username, password, birthday, and email address.

Step 3: Click I'm not a robot and click Sign Up.

Step 4: Select three or more you may possibly want to watch and then click Done.

Step 5: Twitch sent you an email with a link to confirm your email address. Sign in to your email account and click the link to verify your account.

Twitch Login

Step 1: Go to https://www.twitch.tv. 

Step 2: Click Log in. 

Step 3: Type your username and password.

Step 4: Click I'm not a robot and click Log In.

Features

A. Stream

Twitch is made to be a place to stream video games, such as e-sports tournaments, personal streams of individual players, and talk shows about games. There are always new games for PC, console, and mobile platforms. Twitch has also added content that isn't about games. In January 2015, Twitch officially added a category for music streams like radio shows or people making music.

Twitch added its second non-gaming category, Creative, on October 28, 2015. This category is for streams that show how art and other creative works are made. To get people excited about the launch, the service streamed Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting nonstop for eight days.

This is what a Twitch stream or Channel looks like. The navigation bar is on the left, the chat is on the right, and the Twitch video player, where everything has been done, is in the middle.

B. Chat

Twitch chat is a big part of getting to know other people on Twitch. On the right side of each channel is a chat window. It lets Twitch viewers talk to each other and the streamer (broadcaster). To use Twitch chat, you have to be signed in. A Twitch chat has, besides the people who take part in it, three main parts.

1. The messages
2. Chat field
3. Chat mode

A chat field is where people write messages for everyone else in the room to see. There are different rules, called "chat modes," that can be used to calm down a crowded Twitch chat. These modes can be used by the broadcasters and their moderators by typing commands into the chat field. A slow mode, a subscriber-only mode, an emotes-only mode, and so on are all common chat modes. The chat can be in one mode or more than one at once.

The broadcaster, the viewers, and the moderators are usually the people who take part in a chat. The broadcaster can choose to talk to his or her audience directly on the stream or through the chat. Most of the time, it's the latter. A broadcaster might have one or more moderators. Most of the time, it's the moderators who control and moderate the chat (as the broadcasters have to concentrate on the games). Twitch has a Chat badges system that makes it easier to find broadcasters, moderators, and other types of people in the chat. Normal viewers don't have badges, but you can see them next to their names. Here is a list of badges that are often used.

Twitch Staff:	The people who work for Twitch
Broadcasters:	The owner of the channel you are visiting
Moderators:	The moderators of the chat you are currently visiting
Turbo User:	A paid user of Twitch's monthly premium user service

C. Emotes 

Twitch emoticons, also called emotes, are a wide range of icons that viewers can use in their chat messages. There are different kinds of emotes that correspond to the kinds of users who can use them. Everyone can use global emotes, but only people who subscribe to a certain channel can use channel emotes. Turbo users are the only ones who can use turbo emotes. Users can access these emotes by typing the emote code, which is the most common way, or by clicking the smiley face on the right side of the chat box. This brings up a list of emotes, from which they can choose which one to share by clicking it. Global emotes have been used the most, and they have become a big part of Twitch culture. Some of them have even become legendary.

Face emotes are another name for global emotes. They show the faces of many Twitch staff, admins, and famous e-sports players.

	Kappa
	PogChamp
	Kreygasm
	4Head
	BibleThump
	BrokeBack

D. Twitch Partner Program

In July 2011, Twitch started the Partner Program, which lets popular content creators get a cut of the money made from ads on their streams. Also, for US$4.99 a month, Twitch users can subscribe to streamers who have partnered with Twitch. Twitch keeps $2.50 of each subscription to a channel, and the rest goes straight to the partnered streamer. Subscribers to a channel get access to special emotes, chat rights, and other perks. As of 2015, 11,000 streamers are partnered.

E. Platform support

There is a Twitch app for both Android and iOS devices. It has all of Twitch.tv's most important features, like being able to watch streams and chat within the app. Twitch also lets you stream from consoles, and there is already software for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Ouya. CEO Emmett Shear has said that he wants to support "every platform where people watch videos."