What Parents & Educators Need to Know about Twitch

Clare Godwin
Experienced video game journalist

Parent Guide

15 min

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This free online safety guide focuses on Twitch. It highlights a number of risks such as inappropriate content, private chat rooms and contact from strangers.

Twitch is a livestreaming service which tends to focus on gaming. Users can publicly broadcast their gameplay and commentary online for other users to watch. It's a community-driven platform where viewers can support their favourite streamers’ channels through PayPal donations, "bits" and more. Each streamer or group creates their own community for fans to interact with each other. Twitch has more than 15 million daily active users and also includes non-gaming topics such as music, cooking and art. Anyone can create a channel to livestream or watch videos.

In the guide, you'll find tips on avoiding potential risks such as inappropriate content, private chat rooms and contact from strangers.

Clare Godwin

Clare Godwin, (a.k.a. Lunawolf) has worked as an editor and journalist in the gaming industry since 2015, providing websites such as NeoSeeker, Nexus Mods and Raging Gazebo, with event coverage, reviews and gaming guides.

She is the owner and Editor-in-chief of Lunawolf Gaming and is currently working on various gaming-related projects including game development and writing non-fiction books. With experience in esports and content creation, Clare has seen the benefits and drawbacks of all aspects of gaming.