Existing Features

Twitch Basics

Hosts

When streamers go live they obviously will start at 0 viewers, assuming there is no one in their offline chat, but what happens to all those viewers when a streamer goes offline? Well that's where hosts will come in useful as the streamer has the option to host another channels stream on their own when going offline. More specifically, the offline streamer will then be broadcasting another streamers stream on their channel, leaving all the viewers the option to stay and watch, or click the button to return to the streamers offline chat.

Clips

Clips are another extremely useful feature that are used constantly by users to attempt to capture great, but short, moments in a live stream.

Raids

Squad streaming has been around for a little while now but is still a relatively new feature that has proven pretty useful and popular for some users. This features allows Twitch Affiliates who may be interacting or playing a game together, to have all their streams and chats available on one tab so that viewers can see all the perspectives and interact with all the streamers at once. There are still a few issues with this that need to be sorted out but for the most part, it works pretty well, especially for multiplayer campaigns, IRL adventures, GTA RP and more.

Rewards, Drops

This aspect is more speculation than reality, as this feature has not been introduced fully yet but despite that there has been some very prevalent rumors/discussion of deals from credible sources, showing that something like this might be coming soon. The introduction of watch parties would be the streaming of certain licensed movies that have their rights purchased/owned by Amazon, therefore giving streamers the ability to watch these movies live with their chats (although rumors say it may be Twitch Prime Subscribers only, which could set back it's success). This would be huge for the platform and could add a large amount of interest and hopefully users, but only time will tell.