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Twitch’s Cheers enable fans to fund their favorite livestreamers with premium emotes

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Twitch has launched a new way of cheering players that could turn into an important new form of monetization. Dubbed “Cheering,” the new form of celebration allows spectators to show support for broadcasters with animated emotes.

Spectators can simply type in “cheer” followed by a number in the chat window. Higher numbers use more Bits, which users can purchase with real money. That can add up to real money for both Twitch and the broadcasters, as the gameplay livestreaming service owned by Amazon has more than 1.7 million broadcasters and more than 100 million monthly users.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.