Guides
How to get the most out of Twitch's data: walkthroughs of the tools here, and where the numbers come from.
Look someone up
- How to Check How Long Someone Has Been Subbed on Twitch See anyone's sub streak in a channel, and when they first subscribed, straight from a chat message.
- How to See Who Mods or VIPs a Twitch Channel List a channel's moderators, VIPs, founders and artists, or every channel someone mods in, with the Twitch roles lookup.
- How to See Why a Twitch Streamer Got Banned Find out when a channel was banned, whether it was a TOS or DMCA ban, and whether it's temporary, with the Twitch bans tracker.
- How to Check Someone's Twitch Chat Logs Look up everything a user said in a Twitch channel, read a whole day of chat, and search it with filters like from:, is:ban and has:link.
Read the numbers
- How to Tell When a Twitch Streamer Usually Goes Live See which days and hours a Twitch streamer is usually live, in your own time zone, worked out from their last 90 days of streams.
- How to Pick a Game to Stream on Twitch Use viewers per channel and live channel counts to find Twitch categories where a smaller streamer can actually get seen.
- How to Find the Biggest Twitch Streamers Right Now Rank Twitch channels, categories and streams by hours watched, viewers or follower growth, for any period from a day to all time.
- How to Compare Twitch Streamers Side by Side Put up to five Twitch channels next to each other and compare viewers, hours watched, follower growth, schedules and shared chatters.
- How Lurkology Counts Viewers, Followers and Subs Where our Twitch numbers come from, how often we measure them, and why they can differ a little from other stats sites.
Emotes, VODs and drops
- How to Find Active Twitch Drops for Any Game See every drops campaign running right now on Twitch and Kick, which channels carry it, and how long you need to watch.
- What Does This Twitch Emote Mean? Finding an Emote's Origin Look up any Twitch, 7TV, BTTV or FFZ emote to see where it came from, who made it, and how much chat uses it.
- How to Watch Twitch VODs With Chat Replay Rewatch a past Twitch broadcast with its chat scrolling beside it, jump to the best moments, and share a link to the exact second.