What is a Twitch raid? Everything you need to know
If you’ve hung around Twitch long enough, you’ve probably seen a channel raid happen. However, what exactly is a Twitch raid?
Being a Twitch streamer, one of the hardest things to tackle is growing your channel. Twitch offers a few different options in your creator dashboard to help with that.
One of those options is called a channel raid, and if you’re looking to find out what exactly that is then you’ve come to the right place.
What is a raid?
A raid, also known as a channel raid, is a tool Twitch gives you tosend your live viewers to another streamer’s channel.
Once the raid commences it will redirect everyone that was watching your stream, however, new viewers to your channel will still see your profile.
How do raids work?
If you already know what a raid is, you may still be wondering how exactly to start one. There are actuallytwo waysto start a raid on Twitch:
Once you perform either of these actions, a box will pop up on top of your channel chat. This box displays the number of participants in the raid as well as a countdown to the start of it.
After 10 seconds, or until everyone in your channel is ready, you will be able to click the purple ‘Raid Now’ button to redirect everyone from your channel to the new target channel.
When a raid is received, a message in chat notifies everyone on the target channel about the raid and the number of participants in your raid.
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How do I react to a Twitch raid?
If you’re a streamer and get raided while live, you might wonder how to react to someone’s kindness. Here are a few tips:
Can you stop Twitch raids?
There are many reasons why you may want to disable raids from another streamer. Twitch has provided three options to moderate your raids, including limiting to people you follow, are friends with, are on the same stream team as, or block all raids completely.
Here’s how to access those options:
Can I moderate raid messages?
Often after receiving a raid, the streamer sending the raid will have a ‘raid message’ their chat repeatedly posts in your chat. If you feel like they’re spamming your channel, you may moderate thatas well.
The streamer and mods will have the ability to do the following steps:
Can I ban inappropriate raiders?
There is always the off-chance you get hit by a raider that is just looking to cause harm. Fortunately, Twitch has also provided the tool to ban specific raiders.
So, that’s all – everything you need to know about Twitch raids. Stick with Dexerto for more guides on streaming on the platform!
