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Channel points are free to the viewer and automatically accumulated by watching your stream.

Bits are purchased at roughly a 100:$1 ratio, and about half of that goes to the streamer (and half to twitch).


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JohnMakin10/02/2024

Partner here - I don’t know the precise TOS here because it’s twisty and constantly changing but I have streamed now for almost 10 years as a partner with a micro following, my account balance to this day is like $46. They make every excuse possible not to give you money or put arbitrary restrictions on how much you should stream to access it, to the point I just stopped and put a paypal link on my profile and said dont give it to twitch. They steal a lot from smaller partners. However, it’s a good platform so I just take it. Kind of on the theme of this thread, lol. You choose to build a castle in someone else’s kingdom because there’s no other place.