Twitch is one of the most popular streaming platforms of the moment, and offers different ways of sharing content. Many creators join daily to grow and turn their live shows into a new source of income. Twitch raids are one of the many tools you can use to popularize your content and reach among users.
Through your twitch channel You can create a community of followers, establish a relationship and design a strategy so that the content arrives with clear messages. Loyalty viewers is a fundamental part of a business plan as an influencer, achieving stability in the number of viewers who watch you regularly.
What is a Twitch raid?
The raids are a kind of invitation for your viewers to go to another channel after finishing a stream. It is a widely used technique to guide your followers to another related channel or to one that you want to support directly. At the end of your stream, you can use a Twitch raid to send your viewers to another channel, or they can use it to bring you new followers as well.
For use raids on twitch you have to differentiate them first, into two groups: incoming raids (when your channel is the destination), and outgoing raids (when you send viewers to another channel). In both cases the user has tools to configure and control the raid.
What benefits does a raid bring to the growth of the Twitch channel?
Using raids correctly with other Twitch channels has numerous benefits. First, because it is a strategy that helps to generate links between different content creators, but also, it is an alternative that generates loyalty and commitment between channels. The main benefits include:
- Increase the visibility of a streamer and help publicize their broadcasts.
- Create a more connected community and generate mutual support with other channels.
- Provide users with links to other channels to continue keeping the platform dynamic. The raids are mainly
- between channels that share a theme or aesthetic.
- Keep the audience within the platform.
- Engagement or commitment between different channels.
How do you raid on Twitch?
To start a raid on Twitch you have to follow some steps, quite quick, but you must do it manually. Follow these instructions:
- Open the chat of your Twitch stream.
- Type the command: /raid and followed by the name of the channel you want to send the raid to. You can also press the “start channel raid” button from the control panel, and a list of channel suggestions will appear. You can also write the name of the destination channel.
- When a raid starts, a countdown appears and the user can wait and stay, or leave the raid.
- Once the raid begins, a message in the chat alerts all users to the number of participating raiders.
The channel that starts the raid is called the host, while the destination channel is the raid channel where the different viewers will arrive to continue sharing content and experiences. New viewers will be taken directly to the raid, unless they hit the exit button to opt out of the experience.
How are raids set up on Twitch?
The main raid objective is to make content creation more collaborative, but they are not without controversy. That is why it is possible to configure certain actions and control some parameters to avoid problems.
In case you don't want to have raids on your channel, you can close it or block it for channels that bother you. The intermediate point is to configure the chat so that only followers and not newcomers can participate. While most raids generate good energy and are used for positive and range expansion purposes, there can always be users willing to mess around.
Disable raids temporarily
You can manage incoming raids while you are broadcasting live, temporarily denying all raids for a period of one hour. This is activated from the Settings menu, by choosing the shortcut “disable raids temporarily”. Activation can be done manually or by waiting for 1 hour to pass, at which time the raids are automatically enabled again.
The chat configuration in the raids is also quite interesting, allowing you to modify parameters so that communication is more fluid. You can choose to modify Channel Modes and enable different behaviors for viewers:
- Only smileys, so they can only use smileys in interactions.
- For subscribers only, preventing non-subscribers from participating.
- For followers only.
- Slow mode, customize the time that must elapse between one message and another to make it much easier to follow the thread of the conversation.
Finally, if any user is disturbing or violating channel rules, you can always report or veto it. In this way, a certain control is maintained over the interactions of new and old followers and the raid is better used.