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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.