Bits allow you to express yourself on Twitch through animated icons, and can make your message stand out from the crowd (these are called Cheers). Depending on how many Bits you spend, your Cheer can ...

When you Cheer on Twitch, your chat message will be marked with an animated emote — the more Bits you use, the more noticable ...

Twitch is now testing a new way for viewers to donate money to their favorite streamers in the form of new emote and microtransaction systems called "Cheers" and "Bits." When Amazon bought Twitch for ...

Twitch’s Bits, a virtual good that allows fans to cheer on their favorite streamers, have been one of the ways Twitch creators could make money from their channels while also recognizing and rewarding ...

That's $414 worth of "Cheering" right there. Twitch, the popular game-streaming site, has a funding problem. Not related to the company -- it's owned by Amazon and is just fine -- but its streamers.

In June 2016, Twitch introduced Cheering, a system that allows viewers to pay their favorite partnered streamers simply by typing an emote into the chat -- and it appears to have paid off.