
Get to Know Twitch
Welcome to Twitch
A vibrant interactive livestreaming service that offers a blend of entertainment, community, and real-time engagement.
From gaming content to creative arts, music performances, and casual conversations, Twitch is where millions of viewers and creators come together every day.
Twitch Creators
If you create content anywhere on the internet, Twitch is a fantastic service where you can share your work and passions with the world. Anyone who creates content on Twitch is considered a Twitch creator.
Twitch creators have the opportunity to grow their own communities, celebrate their successes, and reach new heights through live broadcasting. Twitch is here to support you on your journey. Creator Camp is an excellent resource for you to explore as you continue to grow.
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Streamer You can start working towards growing your stream right away. Your dashboard tracks your progress and will invite you to level up to Affiliate once you reach the requirements. | Affiliate Growing your community beyond that will help you to progress toward Partner status. Your dashboard will invite you to apply once you reach the requirements. | Partner Being a Partner opens up additional revenue opportunities and prioritized support. However, meeting the requirements for Partner does not guarantee Partner status. |
Emotes
Emotes are like stickers for your community to use across Twitch. They help to communicate emotions like excitement, surprise, sadness, frustration, and more. Emotes can be still or animated, but both are a fun way to express yourself quickly based on what you’re seeing on stream.
Global Emotes
are Emotes that every user on Twitch can access. In addition, Twitch Affiliates and Partners can upload custom Emotes that can be accessed by following or subscribing to their channels. Click the ☺ at the bottom of the chat box to see all of the Emotes available to you!

Global Emotes
Here are some of our most popular global Emotes.
Emote | Emote Code :bleedPurple: | Meaning We often say "BleedPurple” to represent Twitch pride | |
:NotLikeThis: | To express frustration or failure | ||
:Kappa: | Sarcasm or dry humor. Kappa is our signature Emote | ||
:LUL: | Laughter. The Emote version of Laugh Out Loud |
Chat Badges
Chatters can have an array of badges beside their names, on average they can display up to two with exceptions for streamers and moderators. There are Global, User Type, Channel, and Event badges. They represent everything from Twitch Partners and staff to channel moderators, subscribers, and more. You can change the badges you are displaying easily through your chat identity, as well as change your font color.
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