Twitch will cost you $100 to pin your chat message for two.5 minutes | Engadget

Twitch is testing a brand new function that offers viewers a manner to verify their favourite streamer (and their fellow followers) can see their message within the chatbox. The livestreaming platform has given choose channels entry to an experimental function known as “Elevated Chat,” which pins a viewer’s message for visibility in the event that they’re prepared to pay for it. Similar to YouTube’s Super Chat, the extra individuals pay, the longer their message stays highlighted. A fee of $5 will elevate their message for 30 seconds, whereas $10 will get them a minute. If they need 1.5 minutes, they’re going to should pay $25. Two minutes? That’s $50. And if they need their message to remain highlighted for two.5 minutes, they higher be ready to pay $100 for it. 

Paying $100 on YouTube’s Super Chat is usually sufficient to spotlight a message for an hour. That stated, whereas the options are related, their implementations aren’t precisely the identical. YouTube provides markers to the highest of the chatbox for every Super Chat, and clicking on them will take viewers to the donor’s message. Meanwhile, Twitch is testing two potential areas for elevated chats. Streamers who’ve been chosen to take part will see the highlighted messages seem both on the prime of the chatbox or on the backside of the video. Also, it seems like there can solely be one highlighted message at a time, since Twitch said in the feature’s support page that viewers will enter a queue if a number of individuals pay for elevated chats on the identical time.

Of course, $100 for two.5 minutes of visibility sounds fairly outrageous it doesn’t matter what — particularly if you happen to can simply pay for 5 30-second elevated messages for $25. The experiment will final for 4 weeks, after which Twitch will seemingly take a look at information from the check to resolve whether or not to present the function a wider rollout.