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Twitch is the place where many gamers stream their prowess as the frag and narrate their favorite games. Users of Twitch have always been able to chat and comment on streams, but Twitch now has a new ...
The most obvious way to support a streamer is to subscribe to their channel, or make a donation. However, Twitch also has another way to send streamers money: Cheers. Here's how it works: You buy ...
Streaming platform Twitch introduced a chat functionality today called “Cheering,” a new method for tipping streamers. Cheering is done by purchasing a new Twitch currency called “Bits.” You can then ...
That's $414 worth of "Cheering" right there. Twitch, the popular game-streaming site, has a funding problem. Not related to the company -- it's owned by Amazon and is just fine -- but its streamers.
Thanks to Twitch’s new community support system, streamers earned millions of dollars in additional revenue last year. According to Twitch’s Year in Review mini-game, viewers gave 590 million “Bits” ...
Just when it looked like Twitch was looking to reduce the amount of ads on its site, the live-streaming service has introduced a new way for users to tip their favourite casters that relies heavily on ...
Twitch announced Monday that users would soon be able to “cheer” (it’s in quotes because it’s the official term) their favorite streamers — in the form of expendable emoji purchasable with real-world ...
A group of Turkish streamers has exposed a massive money-laundering scheme that’s allegedly been exploiting Twitch’s monetization tools to funnel out millions of dollars. As first reported by MEE, ...