Twitch: how to create platform polls for viewers

One of the things that makes Twitch a great streaming platform is its ability to communicate with your favorite streamers. Or vice versa; streamers can read their viewers in real time. Chat comments, surprise subscriptions, emojis and badges. And then there are the Twitch polls. Creating polls is easy and will help you learn more about your audience. And, on the other hand, voting in polls is an additional way to interact with your reference streamers.

The topic of the survey you want to create depends on the channel owner himself. You can ask what games you should play in your upcoming live broadcasts or topics to cover in your broadcasts, ask your followers what they are doing, what their favorite movies are, or which streamer you should try to stream as a group or invite to your recording studio.

Creating polls on Twitch is relatively simple. In addition, any of the viewers can vote in the polls created. Of course, in order to conduct surveys on your channel, you need to be a Twitch partner or affiliate.

This is how to create a poll on Twitch

If you want to create a poll, you will need to go to the Twitch Dashboard. From the Stream Manager you have to access the usual options in the form of shortcuts.

The first time, you'll need to click Create a New Poll.

From now on, simply click New Poll.

In the list of shortcuts, if you are eligible, you can see a shortcut called Manage Poll. From this shortcut you can also create polls to display on your channel.

Completing the survey fields is no secret. You have to title it with the question that will be asked to the audience, up to 60 characters, followed by possible answers, up to 25 characters. Minimum two, maximum five. Finally, indicate when the survey will be open: One minute, a few minutes, among others.

Optionally, there are three features you can enable in your Twitch polls:

1. First enable voting with Bits. So, whoever wants to vote more than once, can do so normally and then an additional vote through Bits.

2. Another option that counts subscribers' votes as two.

3. And finally, polls can be limited only to subscribers.

Once your survey is set up, click Start Survey and you have to wait for the results of your audience.

The poll will see the number of votes and the percentage of each election in real time. Once this is done, you will be able to see a breakdown of the results. Finally, remember that you can only have one active survey. You can create whatever you want but one by one.

How can you vote in Twitch polls

As a creator or streamer, you can create polls. And as a Twitch viewer or follower, you can vote in the polls. It's optional, but it's one of the benefits of following a Twitch channel. When a streamer creates a poll on their channel, a screen appears in the upper corner of the chat window. You can open and view all the poll options.

There are two ways to vote in polls on Twitch. Most obviously, by clicking on the preference vote option and then the Vote button.

The second way to vote is from the chat itself. To do this, you can use the vote command followed by the option number you want to vote. From 1 to 5, based on the responses configured by the survey creator.

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