Stream Key Podcast: The Five Types of Viewers You'll Meet On Twitch (1)

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The Five Types of Viewers You'll Meet On Twitch Link

1. Lurkers--little to no chat interaction. All agree to NOT address lurkers. They want to watch and be left alone. If they want to say hi, they’ll say hi. Don’t speak unless spoken to.
2. Experts--know every detail of the game, and make sure they tell you about it. They may backseat and try to drive the gameplay for you. One appreciated the directives to a point. One does the opposite. The other one calls the person out, but it’s because he knows that person.
3. Self-promoters--they only self promote and don’t discuss anything else. One would time out, especially if the person says your stream sucks. The other, mod deleted self-promotion message right away. No one mentioned banning self-promoters.
4. Give Away grabbers--they only join channel and only enter the give-away, nothing else. The best response is that you need enough coins to even enter the contest in the first place. The other responses appeared passive-aggressive.
5. Foundational viewers--they come out all the time b/c they want to support you. Engage people in chat to gain more. They want to feel that they’re part of ur community, family, etc. Treat them like family, but don’t overdo it b/c the interviewers don’t want them to eclipse themselves as streamers, which personally doesn’t make sense to me. They discussed that they can be a mod, but make sure they’re mature.

Lurkers and Foundational viewers are the backbone. They didn’t mention trolls, which should be one of the categories?

Questions/Answers:

• They discussed the purpose of raids, helps get you and the raider new viewers.
• Fortnite SaveTheWorld promotion lol (I LOVE FN PvE), it was about to launch.
• They discussed the worst troll they’ve ever met.
• Career ender: Crying on stream when sad? What if you found out one of your viewers passed away? I was in tears when talking about Aretha Franklin and what she meant to all of us. Not sure if they were trolling about that one?

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