Muted Streams Should Count as a Viewer
There are many reasons why viewers may need or want to watch a stream without audio but doing so removes the view from the viewer counter.
- People sensitive to noise
- people that cannot hear
- people that are in a public or common areas
- people that are multitasking.
These are just a few reasons but I imagine there are many many more. Please add any you think of in the comments below.
I know, speaking from personal experience that there are many times I want to enjoy a stream but cannot have the audio on and it is not fair or right that I then don’t count as a viewer.
Even if I chat to other viewers I still do not count in the eyes of Twitch because my volume is off.
A view is a view and sound volume should not be used to determine if it counts towards the overall viewer count.
Please consider this an accessibility issue because when you dig down into it. That’s exactly what it is.
I would like to put forward the idea that a viewer counts as a view even if muted.
Hey there,
Not entirely sure where you saw that muted stream do not count, but we shared this thread a while ago addressing this. https://twitter.com/TwitchSupport/status/1184540919447601153?s=20
We love lurkers and they do count <3