Twitch Plays Pokemon burst onto the then nascent livestreaming scene back in 2014, letting Twitch viewers take command of a Game Boy emulator running Pokemon Red via simple chat commands. Since then, ...

Twitch is giving some of its higher-paying subscribers a new chat perk, allowing Tier 2 and Tier 3 subs to send GIFs directly ...

If you’re a newcomer to a Twitch channel and want to start participating in the chat but aren’t sure whether your message will get noticed among the many pouring in, there’s a new Twitch feature ...

Twitch users post over 300 messages per secondand frankly, a lot of them are garbage. That’s okay, though. Under all those layers of spam and emotes, there’s some meaning. If you’ve spent even a few ...

Twitch users have the ability to customize their chat experience by turning on chat filters that will attempt to hide different kinds of offensive text from the chat window. One of these filters ...

Update 09/29: Twitch announced a new phone verified chat tool. Allowing streamers and mods to require viewers to verify their account via a phone number or email address before they can interact in ...

One of the more unacceptable things to occur in regards to livestreaming on Twitch has been the absolute flood of racist and homophobic bot programs that have plagued the platform. Twitch’s early ...

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