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The sparsely used GBAtempTV Twitch account is up and running, and we're playing Rocket League right now, starring members @Armadillo and @VinsCool so if you're interested in watching, tune in! This is a casual test stream to see how things work, for now, and hopefully we can get a lot of use out of Twitch in the coming weeks!

Edit: and it's offline! Thanks so much for everyone who joined in! It was a blast!

Edit 2: T-hug is now online streaming Resident Evil Revelations 2!

Watch here!

 

[Armadillo]

Ah yes, the GBAtemp Salt Streams, sounds perfect!

Yes . I want to see it, too calm on unranked stream. Not convinced you get salty .

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

How can i be part of this.... that doesn't include me owning rocket league?

 

[Armadillo]

Ask/prod staff members to play & stream a game you have

 

[ItsKipz]

yo waiting on that overwatch stream

 

[tonyrayo]

Hey, Cherry @Chary + other Twitch ops; would it be possible to set up automation to get notifications posted to Twitter (or even Twitter+Facebook) when a stream goes live? The reason for this request is that it would allow others who might not be online at the time to get notified that a stream is happening (yes, there are push notifications for Android/iOS but not everyone wants/is able to keep mobile connectivity on, as well as this service sometimes acting spotty). Amazon is sadly "improving" many of Twitch's features, so long gone is the automated integration to generate a post when a stream has started (this can be worked in via "Events" but GBATempTV has a total of 1 of these in its existence).

I'd imagine a separate Twitter channel specifically for streaming events may be ideal and including Facebook (if at all) notifications would again be a matter for the team to decide, however, IFTTT provides official scripts just for Twitter as well as for Twitter and Facebook. The nice thing about this method is that there is zero cost (one time free accounts need to be made for IFTTT/Twitter/Facebook), setup is easy (simply provide OAuth once for the services you want to link) and everything is on auto-pilot from there (using the simple template, posts will be made to the pre-defined social media accounts).

Additional Benefit:
Both Twitch and Facebook offer free SMS notifications globally (I'm sure there are still some mobile plans that limit SMS messaging or possibly even charge for it still, but thankfully this is becoming less and less of a thing)

Drawback:
The only one I could come up with is that this would occur every time a stream went live. Therefore, if someone was having a hard time with setup and needed to relaunch the stream 5 times in 5 minutes, then 5 messages would be posted (it would be possible to code in a grace period feature but that is not enabled by default). There might also be a broadcast that the streamer wants to be public, but yet not announce to social media (I don't know what this would be exactly, but use your imaginations).

Cheers!

 

[Chary]

Hey, Cherry @Chary + other Twitch ops; would it be possible to set up automation to get notifications posted to Twitter (or even Twitter+Facebook) when a stream goes live? The reason for this request is that it would allow others who might not be online at the time to get notified that a stream is happening (yes, there are push notifications for Android/iOS but not everyone wants/is able to keep mobile connectivity on, as well as this service sometimes acting spotty). Amazon is sadly "improving" many of Twitch's features, so long gone is the automated integration to generate a post when a stream has started (this can be worked in via "Events" but GBATempTV has a total of 1 of these in its existence).

I'd imagine a separate Twitter channel specifically for streaming events may be ideal and including Facebook (if at all) notifications would again be a matter for the team to decide, however, IFTTT provides official scripts just for Twitter as well as for Twitter and Facebook. The nice thing about this method is that there is zero cost (one time free accounts need to be made for IFTTT/Twitter/Facebook), setup is easy (simply provide OAuth once for the services you want to link) and everything is on auto-pilot from there (using the simple template, posts will be made to the pre-defined social media accounts).

Additional Benefit:
Both Twitch and Facebook offer free SMS notifications globally (I'm sure there are still some mobile plans that limit SMS messaging or possibly even charge for it still, but thankfully this is becoming less and less of a thing)

Drawback:
The only one I could come up with is that this would occur every time a stream went live. Therefore, if someone was having a hard time with setup and needed to relaunch the stream 5 times in 5 minutes, then 5 messages would be posted (it would be possible to code in a grace period feature but that is not enabled by default). There might also be a broadcast that the streamer wants to be public, but yet not announce to social media (I don't know what this would be exactly, but use your imaginations).

Cheers!

Wow, talk about coincidence! I was looking at the IFTTT scripts and saw the Twitch link to Facebook and Twitter. I thought it'd be a good idea to do that, perhaps, but at the same time, I have a Discord bot in the GBAtemp server that announces when streams go live, and it gets a bit on the spammy side, so I thought not to. I could however tweet out streams when they go live, as I'm usually around in some capacity, and barring that, I love the idea of making a second Twitter for GBAtemp media stuffs.

Thanks for the tip, I appreciate it! I'll look into this stuff further!