When you Cheer on Twitch, your chat message will be marked with an animated emote — the more Bits you use, the more noticable the emote is.

Cheering allows another way to support that with the caveat that for you to cheer on your favorite folks, you have to purchase Bits.

Streaming platform Twitch introduced a chat functionality today called “Cheering,” a new method for tipping streamers. Cheering is done by purchasing a new Twitch currency called “Bits ...

Twitch, the popular game-streaming site, has a funding problem. Not related to the company -- it's owned by Amazon and is just fine -- but its streamers. Like on other video platforms, creators ...

As first reported by MEE, users in Turkey noticed that small-time channels with only handfuls of viewers were receiving “thousands of dollars” through Twitch’s virtual cheering currency, Bits.

Twitch announced Monday that users would soon be able to "cheer" their favorite streamers — in the form of expendable emoji purchasable with real-world money. Details were rather scarce so I ...

It comes as an extension to the "Cheering" emotes announced in June and lets viewers accumulate Bits -- a Twitch currency where emoticons translate into donations -- by simply sitting through a 30 ...