

These intuitive elements of the Extension have driven its participation and engagement (not to mention revenue) amongst the Twitch community and ensured its enduring success since its launch. Furthermore, once a viewer initiates a sound on the stream, the Sound Alerts triggers a chatbot message and overlay notification to the streamer. Sound Alerts includes a leaderboard where viewers can see which sounds are the most popular on each stream. As you may have already guessed, Sound Alerts is the name of a highly popular Bits-in-Extension, which allows broadcasters to upload their own sounds or select top sounds from other streamers and assign them to buttons which viewers can press to play the Sound Alert on a stream.Īccording to Twitch a Bits-in-Extension lets developers integrate Bits (usually found in Chat) with Extensions, to monetize the experience during a broadcaster’s live stream.įar from being a simple open source soundboard, streamers with Bits-enabled channels can also set a Bits amount that viewers must use for each sound button, so they can monetize their use of the Extension.
