User engagement is crucial to growing your streaming channel, that’s why it’s important to let your followers know when you start streaming. Remembering to tweet out every time can be a chore, that’s why it’s best to automate these simple functions so you can focus on what matters. In this article we’ll explore how to setup one of these integrations with Stream Hydra – An automation platform designed for streamers to connect multiple services together with ease. This platform will help you connect Twitch to Twitter so you can automatically tweet when you go live on Twitch in only a few clicks!
Setting up the applet #
1. Firstly, if you haven’t already, sign in or create an account with Stream Hydra – It’s Free!
2. Next, head over to the modules page to enable Twitch and Twitter
3. We are now ready to create an applet! Click on “Applets” on the left hand side and click “New Applet”
4. In the applet editor, we need to find the 2 nodes that we will connect together. Scroll down or search for “On Stream Start” in the Twitch section and “Send Tweet” in the Twitter section. Drag these onto the editor and connect them together.
5. Now double click on the “Send Tweet” node to edit, and type in a custom message that you want to tweet. Once you have done this, all that’s left is to “Save”, “Close”, and “Enable” and you’re good to go!
That’s it! Whenever you start streaming on Twitch, Stream Hydra will automatically tweet your message, saving you time for what matters. Want this applet to do more? Sure! Take a look at the hundreds of nodes available to connect and the data that they each pass so you can truly customise your streaming environment.
Note #
Twitter will not let you tweet the same message twice in a row within a short space of time and will throw back an error. To get around this, try passing in your Twitch Stream Title into the twitter message so that your tweets will always be different.
