A Guide to Twitch Communities

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The Emergence

4 min readMar 24, 2018

Created as a way to help viewers discover new streamers, Twitch Communities were released in February 2017 to all streamers to help them share the content to relevant groups of people. Streamers could stream to three separate Communities are the same time.

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A Guide to Twitch Communities - The Emergence

Created as a way to help viewers discover new streamers, Twitch Communities were released in February 2017 to all…

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In September 2018, Twitch removed Communities and replaced them with Tags.

What was a Twitch Community?

Initially disliked, Communities have grown into actual legitimate communities of people who follow a certain game, game style, location, genre, team (company) or streamer personality.

Twitch describes a community as:

“Communities are a new discovery tool to help streamers connect to the most relevant audiences and help viewers discover streams that fit their interests easier and faster than ever.”

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How could I join a Twitch Community?

Although you cannot ‘join’ a Community permanently, you can select them on your dashboard (just below your game selection). When you start streaming, you will appear within these communities — these are displayed from most popular to least in the same style as game channels.

As you can now stream to three separate Communities, I encourage streamers to make use of this as much as possible and consider which ones are most relevant to them.

In the same way that we do not recommend you stream the most popular game, we do not suggest streaming to the most popular communities as you will likely be drowned out by the biggest names. Find those where you can stand out and become a key voice in the ‘community’.

Viewers can also follow communities by pressing the ❤ when they land on the Community page.

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Creating your own Community

If your account is over 3 months old and you’ve set up 2nd factor authentication, you are able to create up to five communities.

You may want to do this based around a certain game, creative style, genre or even your own team (of friends and gaming buddies).

Tips for being in a Twitch Community

Look at who else is active in the Community, why not join their chat and become friends?
You can host them after your stream, or set them as auto hosts within your settings
You could even be sneaky and raid them during your streams
Do they have a Discord channel that you can join and interact with?
Follow their Twitter, follow communities members and engage with them

Want more tips? Check out our guides to Twitch streaming