Twitch character counter

Twitch limits at a glance

• Text: up to 500 characters.
• Media: text only, no photos or videos.
• Follow-ups: no follow-up comments on this network.
• Settings in Postozo: Send as, Announcement color.

How Twitch counts characters

Twitch chat messages can be up to 500 characters. Only people watching your chat at that moment see them.

Among the 23 networks with a counter here, Twitch has the 4th shortest of 14 different limits. Threads, Pinterest, Mastodon and Kick have the same limit of 500. Shorter is not worse: it only changes how you write. Short limits reward 1 clear idea per post.

This counter counts each character (Unicode code point), the same way Postozo checks it before saving.

Rules Postozo checks for Twitch

Sends a message to your own Twitch chat. Only people watching the chat at that moment see it, so schedule it while you are live. Text only, max 500 characters. No photos, no follow-up comments.

Twitch settings in Postozo

• Send as: An announcement is a highlighted chat message with a colored bar.
• Announcement color (only when kind is Announcement): Default, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple.

How to use this Twitch counter

1. Write or paste your Twitch chat message in the box above.
2. Watch the "left" number. It turns amber when less than 10% is left and red when the text is too long.
3. Count links and hashtags as part of the text: Twitch counts them too.
4. Too long? Cut it down. Twitch posts in Postozo have no follow-up comments, so everything has to fit in 1 post.

Connecting Twitch to Postozo

You connect Twitch by signing in with Twitch and allowing access. Postozo never sees your password.

Twitch does not share statistics with Postozo, so you see the publish status and the live link (your channel page) for each post.

Tips for Twitch posts

• Schedule messages for while you are live. Nobody sees them otherwise.
• Send as an announcement for a highlighted message with a colored bar.
• Text only. No photos or videos.
• Chat settings like follower-only mode or AutoMod can block a message.

Before you post on Twitch

• Read the post on a phone screen. Most people will see it there, and long lines look longer on a small screen.
• Open every link once to check it works and goes to the right page.
• Keep the full, longer version of your text. You may want it for a network with more room than Twitch.

Write once, fit every network

If you post the same message to several networks, Postozo lets you write it once and change the text for Twitch only. The AI assistant can shorten a post to fit Twitch, and the post editor warns you before a post breaks a rule. See every network's limit on the all-networks character counter.