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” ...

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Streaming platform Twitch has introduced the ability to buy emotes and use them in chat. The feature is called "Cheering" and, in an official Twitch blog post, is described as "a new way to show ...

Twitch is giving the community a new way to show support for streamers. The site on Monday introduced Cheering, a feature that lets you financially support your favorite streamers and "celebrate the ...

Twitch is now testing a new way for viewers to donate money to their favorite streamers in the form of new emote and microtransaction systems called "Cheers" and "Bits." When Amazon bought Twitch for ...

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.

Although many other platforms like YouTube and Facebook Gaming have garnered favor with streamers, Twitch remains the central hub for live gameplay and other live streams on the internet. Twitch is ...

Bits allow you to express yourself on Twitch through animated icons, and can make your message stand out from the crowd (these are called Cheers). Depending on how many Bits you spend, your Cheer can ...

Twitch streamers have a new way to potentially monetize their broadcasts by using Bits in enabled Extensions, the social video service announced Monday. Bits are a form of virtual currency viewers can ...