Hacker News Reader

Comment by VieElm | Hacker News Reader

Twitch doesn't make any money from streamer tips as most of that is done through a link to PayPal. Twitch has no tip system.

Popular streamers like Lirik have said they much prefer getting a subscription through Twitch than a donation as it's much more reliable. Some streamers like Summit1G probably does make way more money through tips because of their personality some people just throw money at them, but again none of that goes to Twitch.

View on HN

Ehm, twitch has it's own donation system (which works trough paypal) e.g.: https://www.twitchalerts.com/donate/tsm_theoddone (and ofc boobies!) https://www.twitchalerts.com/donate/pink_sparkles

If you use a paypal link they also get the referrer unless you simply post your PP email and make people doit manually, but since the introduction of TA i think that's against the EULA.

Except that https://twitchalerts.com is not affiliated with Twitch, it's unsure if they have a deal to get some of the revenue.

They take 1% of the donations.

Yes, twitchalerts does. Not Twitch.

What do you mean by "ofc boobies" ? Having trouble getting something constructive out of that.

Do not assume PayPal is not kicking back a % of donations to Twitch. PayPal does this for e-commerce platforms that make PayPal integrations easy. For some e-commerce platforms this hidden cut of PayPal's transaction is their largest revenue stream.

They don't make it easy, broadcasters just add a link in their profile. There's no information transmitted to PayPal about the donation being for Twitch broadcasting. In fact a lot of broadcaster use third party tools, tools not made by Twitch or PayPal, for the donation system so that it updates in their stream and chat.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com