Twitch is one of the streaming platforms that has grown the most in recent years, being one of the main homes of the most famous streamers and gamers of the moment, both for having a user interface for streamers and viewers and for allowing the use of commands in text chat.
The commands on Twitch, basically, allow streamers and users to do certain things, since they are orders that are given, either to a bot or the platform itself, so that they obtain something specific, such as some information or execute some function. If you want to know more and know what are the best commands on Twitch, here we explain.
The commands on Twitch are easy to use. There are many and very varied that you can find. They all have different goals and serve numerous functions. However, some are only available to channel streamers and editors, others to moderators, and some to everyone.
To use it simply You must copy one of the ones that we hang below in the text chat you want in your favorite streams on Twitch, substituting the values enclosed in braces and changing them for those that we indicate within said braces.
Basic commands for everyone
| COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| / mods | This command will list all the chat moderators for that particular channel. |
| / vips | This command will display a list of all the VIPs on that particular channel. |
| /Colour { COLOR NAME } | It allows you to change the color of your username. Normal users can choose between Blue (blue) - Coral (coral) - DodgerBlue (strong blue) - SpringGreen (spring green) - YellowGreen (yellowish green) - Green (green) - OrangeRed (orange red) - Red (red) - GoldenRod (golden yellow) - HotPink (bright pink) - CadetBlue (cadet blue) - SeaGreen (sea green) - Chocolate (chocolate) - BlueViolet (violet blue) and Firebrick (tile red). |
| /Colour { HEXADECIMAL VALUE } | Twitch Turbo users can use the colors posted above. They can also use any hex value (for example: # 000000). |
| / block { USERNAME } | This command allows you to block all messages and whispers from a specific chat user if you don't want to see their comments. Users can also click on a username in the chat and then the button Block that appears on your User Badge. |
| / unblock { USERNAME } | This command allows you to remove users from the blocked list to which you had previously added them. Users can also click the button Include which replaces the Lock button. |
| /I { TEXT } | This command will remove the colon that normally appear after your name in chat and italicize the text of your message. It can be used to indicate a third person action. |
| / disconnect | This command simply disconnects you from the chat server. To reconnect, simply refresh the page. |
| / w { USERNAME } { MESSAGE } | This command sends a whisper (a private message) to another user on Twitch. |
| @{ USERNAME } | With this command you can address a user or respond directly to any specific message they have posted in the chat. |
Basic commands for streamers and all moderators
| COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| / user { USERNAME } | This command opens a user's profile card so that channel moderators and streamers (if they want to) can share channel-specific moderation comments and see when the user created their account and other information. |
| / timeout { USERNAME } [ SECONDS ] | This command allows you to temporarily ban someone from the chat room for a predetermined time of 10 minutes. |
| / ban { USERNAME } | This command will allow you to permanently kick a user from the chat room. You can also click on the symbol Cancel directly in a chat or in the user badge that appears when clicking on the user name. |
| / unban { USERNAME } | This command allows you to override the permanent removal of a user from the chat room. You can use this command to end an expulsion early. You can also click the button override lock which replaces the Lock button. |
| / slow { SECONDS } | This command allows you to define how often chat room users can send messages (speed limit). |
| / slowoff | This command allows you to disable slow mode if you have enabled it. |
| / followers | This command allows you and your moderators to restrict the chat to all or part of your followers based on the time they have been following you: from 0 minutes (all followers) to 3 months. |
| / followersoff | This command deactivates the Followers Only mode if you had activated it before in the channel. |
| / subscribers | This command allows you to configure your room so that only users subscribed to you can speak in the chat room. |
| / subscribersoff | This command allows you to deactivate the chat room for users only if you have activated it before. |
| / clear | Chat streamers and moderators can completely erase previous chat history. |
| / uniquechat | This command prevents users from posting repeated messages to the channel. Checks for a minimum of 9 characters that are not Unicode symbol characters, and then purges any repeating chat lines that follow them. Uniquechat is a great moderating way that allows you to stop generic copy-paste messages that are often spam and annoying content. |
| / uniquechatoff | This command deactivates the Uniquechat mode if you had activated it before in the channel. |
| / emoteonly | This command allows you to configure the room so that only messages composed of 100% emoticons are allowed. |
| / emoteonlyoff | This command allows you to deactivate the Emoticons Only mode if you had previously activated it. |
Commands for streamers and channel editors
| COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| / commercial | A command for affiliates and partners that allows you to run a 30-second ad to all of your viewers. |
| / commercial {30 | 60 | 90 | 120 | 150 | 180} | A command for affiliates and partners that allows you to run an ad of the specified seconds to all your viewers. |
| / goal | This command will allow you to manage a goal of subscriptions or followers. |
| / prediction | This command will allow you to manage the predictions. |
| / host { CHANNEL } | This command will allow you to host another channel in yours (embedded video player). |
| / unhost | This command will send the viewer to another live channel. |
| / raid { CHANNEL } | This command will send the viewer to another live channel. |
| / unraid | This command will cancel the raid. |
| / marker { DESCRIPTION } | Adds a broadcast marker (with an optional description of up to 140 characters) at the current timestamp. You can use the bookmarks in the highlighting tool to make editing easier. |
Commands for streamers
| COMMAND | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
| / mod { USERNAME } | This command allows you to promote a user to channel moderator. This will give you access to all the previous commands and functions. |
| / unmod { USERNAME } | With this command you can return an existing moderator to spectator status (you will remove their moderator functions). |
| / vip { USERNAME } | This command assigns VIP status to a user. |
| / unvip { USERNAME } | This command removes the VIP status of a user. |