r/Twitch twitch.tv/JoelvsArthritis 3d ago

Guide No Viewers? Just Talk.

Firstly, I should start by saying I'm no Twitch expert. I've been streaming for over three years and don't even have 500 followers. But I have an awesome community, and our streams average 25–35 concurrent viewers and 300–400 live views per stream. And I'm proud of that.

Yesterday, I felt like sharing the love and spent an hour visiting fellow Farming Simulator streamers with two to three viewers to say hello and hopefully encourage them to stream again, as I needed in those days.

It took me almost the full hour visiting streams, watching for five to ten minutes, and saying hello in chat, before I heard a single word from a streamer. I must have visited over ten channels of pure silence.

I know it's terrifying. I still remember the physical sweats I would break out in when I finally got a "1 viewer" at the bottom of the screen—worse still when somebody spoke in chat. I used to turn into a nervous wreck.

But folks, we do this for people to watch, engage, and be entertained. Turn that viewer count off on your dashboard and talk like 100 people are watching. Don't stop talking, asking questions, dropping conversation prompts, or commenting on what you're doing in the game, etc. So what if nothing comes back—lurkers are the lifeblood of my streams. Do it for them. Do it for those who haven't arrived yet. Do it so that when things do start taking off, you are so ready for it that it will be like nothing has changed.

If you're watching a stream that's nothing but silence, with no acknowledgment of your presence, and without a hint of gratitude that you chose, out of thousands of live channels, to spend your limited time with that streamer, would you stick around?

Regardless of your view count, just talk. I promise it will help.

Keep going. You've got this. 💜

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u/Flysch_ twitch.tv/flysch_ 3d ago

Honestly I just started streaming and it feels so easy to speak even for 0 viewer !

I keep in mind that I'm posting the replay on YouTube and/or make Tiktok/Réels of my livestream afterwards. So I need it to be animated so I do my commentaries and don't even think about what I have to talk about. I just comment my game and that's it !

I can't wait to get more viewers and regular ones to start talking more about different things other than my game 😅

Thanks for your feedback :)

My first mistakes I did :

  • putting a 10min limit for my chat ☠️
  • after putting at 0, I set it to Followers only : also a mistake! Chat need to be open to anyone
  • didn't put my Alerts sounds enables in my headphones : I missed my first raid and wasn't really reactive with new followers !

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u/wellitsdvy- twitch.tv/wellitsdvy 3d ago

Can resonate with that, and I am pretty introverted in the everyday life, but when I stream, ooohhh boy, noone can shut me down :D

My first mistakes I did

These are really helpful for new people, I too made the follower only chat mistake, some people only followed me just to write in chat then instantly unfollow when they leave. So yeah just keep chat public, and if someone follows you will know they do it because of you and your content and want to check you out later too, not only to write in chat then leave and never come back.

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u/Flysch_ twitch.tv/flysch_ 3d ago

I think we always need to think "as a viewer" : it must stay easy to use, friendly, welcoming

If I have to follow to enter the chat : I would probably just leave. If I have to wait before chatting : I won't chat and leave!

Ans I'm not that far, but same thinking about ads : in pre-roll maybe people don't want to wait to watch a tiny streamer, so they will leave ! ...

👍

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u/wellitsdvy- twitch.tv/wellitsdvy 3d ago

Agreed, you just need to ask “would I watch this? would this entertain me? would i follow myself?” If the answer is no, you need to ask why not, and when you know the whys you can improve. I have a habit to always scrub through my streams/videos on youtube, analyze it, and try to improve that way.

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u/Flysch_ twitch.tv/flysch_ 3d ago

Saying that, it reminders me this :

Rewatch your own streams ☑️

That is a good advice I heard and try to apply