Hi hello :)

Im new to this board/site but wanted to just introduce me. Looks like there is a lot of good tips and tricks to learn here about twitch and esports/tech.
Have a good week ✌️🤓

I see this is over 3 years old, but I'll reply anyway.

Twitch wants you to show them that you can keep viewers watching. Why? Because of ad revenue. If you can keep viewers watching, they're more likely to sit through ads, which makes Twitch lots of money. That's what it boils down to.

As far as viewer count, it's an average. If most of your streams have 2 or 3 viewers, then you have a burst of 20 for a while, and then it dwindles to 2 or 3, your average is still going to be low. Keeping viewers interested is the goal!

In relation to viewer counts, what Twitch is terrible at is discoverability. It's hard to get found and you have to have a presence on other social media sites like Twitter/X, Mastodon, and YouTube. I know they were trying to fix this, but it's still really bad. You're better off going to other sites where discoverability is better, then shepherding those people over to your Twitch stream.

I noticed my average viewers 2 last time hit up and still keep down I wonder why... please need to fix it... So my followers still keep growing...

It's average viewers. It depends on the amount of time you stream and how many viewers you have every five minutes. Even if you get 20 people for a little while, if you had 1 viewer the rest of your time then the average will be less than 3. They want you to show them you can keep people watching your stream. It's supposed to be a hard goal.

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hola bunos dias queria saber xq en el contador de 3 vistas simulteaneas esta bugeada el dia ayer martes tenia 2.17 y hoy miercoles aparesco con 2.13 y justo eyer tube maximo 8 espectadores y 6 mirando mi estrem
por favor me lo pueden arreglar se los pido, porque vairos diads me esta pasando lo mismo

Viewers count problem it also discaraging

Muy buen día quisiera saber el porqué no me están contando mí streaming del día de ayer con mí progreso simultáneo muchas gracias y espero su respectiva respuesta.

Buenas tengo una duda , llevo 1 semana en twitch y me pone que tengo 2.9 viewerrs de promedio en mi stream de hoy al acabar me puso que tenia 4.6 de media esto cuanto tarda en actualizarse gracias

I Agree.

hola, lo que pasa es que al transmitir en directo me aparece una flecha en circulo como si fuera una retransmicion. deberia aparecer el circulo rojo que indica que estoy en directo. alguien sabe por que me pasa eso ?

Disagree. If someone buys a bunch of followers or does Follow-For-Follow, it will just cause more issues.

Think honestly most here do not either know how averages work or how the viewer count actually works.....Here it is in a nutshell the longer you stream the lower your average will become so if your streaming hours upon hours with 2 - 3 people it is never going to work....As soon as you hit your 3 viewers stop stream start again the next day rinse repeat. Always have your stream summary open to check what your current average is once it hits 3 then stop the stream easy. I did this and was affiliate within a week. I have also made affiliate using the same strategy for streamraiders which requires you to have a 20 viewer average over 14 days .

As for those that are saying they have 20 to 30 chatting and not getting the average i think they aren't being very honest about their numbers i can garantee the viewer count is not that broken.

Remember twitch only counts the first 2 tabs opened by a viewer if they have yours open as the 3rd then it simply does not count. Also mute the tab not the player.

I do not wish this to change as it just promotes follow for follow if the average is removed.

same here i had 4 for my whole stream today and gave me an average of 2 viewers you viewer counter is broken or your intentionally holding us back either way would love to see this fixed if it continues im sure some of us with legal representation will be using it to solve the problem ourselves

My last 4 streams claim I had 0 viewer average even though the bar chart on the same page shows 1-3 viewers during the whole streams. How could the average be zero when the average viewers chart isn't zero? Something is wrong.

Si esos espectadores te entraron a la mitad de stream...pues te hace la media de la mitad y mitad. Las raids no cuentan para la media pero si para los espectadores máximos.

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Infatti mi sembra giusto che l'affiliazione dovrebbe riguardare più i follower che gli spettatori ed è giusto che twitch ha un grosso problema con il conteggio corretto degli spettatori , io un volta avevo circa 50 utenti in chat che mi guardvavano e twitch mi diveca che avevo solo 1 spettatore

My gods why do people have so much dificulty affiliating. The algorythm is simply a numbers bot. When I came over from FaceIdiot and sick of Follow4Follow morons jumping in your stream jacking up your numbers, and hoping you will do the same for them. Well in Twitch it is the opposite you need 6-10 friends and 1 hour a day for a week. Voila ..... Affiliation!. Okay I did it the hard way, I spent a month streaming 12 hour streams every day, ruining my chances, but seriously after I worked out where I had gone wrong, and spent another month getting my hours back in check. I was Affiliated in 1 week!. So come on, stop complaining at Twitch for unfair math, Dumb math yes, but unfair nope!.

It should be both. I think the reqs for affiliate are far too little imo since YouTube requires 10,000 hours of watch time and 1000 followers before a channel gets paid. I think the affiliate reqs should be doubled for Twitch channels to 5 average viewers and at least 100 followers since it's easy to cheat your way to 3 average viewers.