Chatter
A viewer who actively types in chat, as opposed to a silent lurker.
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A viewer who actively types in chat, as opposed to a silent lurker. 'Chatters' as a collective noun refers to a channel's active commenting community. Twitch surfaces a chatter count separately from view count. Streamers often address chat directly as 'chatters' or 'my chatters'.
morning chatters, what did I miss yesterday
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- Lurking76%
Watching a stream without typing in chat — leaving the tab open, often muted, sometimes minimized. Twitch counts lurkers as viewers (which boosts streamer rankings), so lurking is socially encouraged. Chatters often type 'lurking' at the start to announce they're here but won't be interactive, then disappear.
- chunner66%
(intransitive, UK, colloquial) To talk tiresomely or at length; to chatter on.
- chat, is this real?66%
A streamer or chatter's reaction to something so absurd it needs collective confirmation. 'Chat' here is treated as a single oracle entity. The phrase has become a standalone meme outside Twitch, used on TikTok and Twitter even by people who don't stream. Often paired with the same image style as 'wait is this real'.
- chatter-basket65%
(UK, informal, archaic) A talkative person; chatterbox.
- natter65%
(colloquial) Mindless and irrelevant chatter.