Articles about Moderation — guides & tips

Twitch's native /shoutout command is the official tool broadcasters and moderators use to promote another streamer in chat. Launched in September 2022 as the replacement for the deprecated /host, it surfaces a click-to-follow pop-up at the top of chat and sends a notification to the recipient's Activity Feed. Using it requires Affiliate or Partner status, can only be triggered by the broadcaster or a moderator, and is rate-limited to once every 2 minutes. The bot-side alternatives (/so or !so via Nightbot, Streamlabs Cloudbot, etc.) have no tier requirement and can be customized but are plain chat messages — they do not produce the native Twitch follow pop-up.