Author: Stephanie Chan / Source: VentureBeat
Starting today, Twitch partners and affiliates will be able to install extensions that their viewers can pay to use. These tools include on-stream minigames and interactive features like polls. The broadcasters will receive 80 percent of the revenue, and the extensions’ developers will receive 20 percent.
Once a broadcaster has installed one of the extensions, viewers will be able to use Bits, which act as Twitch’s virtual currency, to use them. Some of these features allow the audience to interact with the streamers. For instance, iPowow’s Poll extension enables viewers to vote on what happens next. Other tools are games skinned on top of the stream — like Bit Arcade from Doborog Games, which provides users with retro-inspired minigames to…
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