Twitch Activity Feed: Everything Happening in Your Stream, in One Place
You’re mid-fight, and in those same two minutes someone followed you, someone else gifted a sub, and a third viewer dropped bits. An activity feed is a running list of everything happening in your channel – follows, subs, gifted subs, bits, power-ups and raids, newest first. Since late August, ByteMate, the all-in-one dashboard for your Twitch channel, has one of its own – built for the second monitor next to OBS.
What shows up in the feed – and what doesn’t
Everything lands in one list: follows, first subs and resubs with their tier, individual and community gift subs, bits, power-ups, incoming and outgoing raids with viewer counts, plus stream start and end. Donations are in there too – but only the ones that run through ByteMate. Ko-fi and Tipeeestream payments don’t write to the feed.
One thing to get straight: recording starts the moment you switch the feed on. Earlier events can’t be filled in – until then they were only counted up, never stored one by one. Entries are kept for 90 days, then cleared out automatically.
A narrow window next to OBS
The list itself isn’t the point – where it sits is. Open in window breaks the feed out as a narrow popout you can park next to OBS on your second monitor. As long as Live is on, new events appear by themselves; nothing to refresh.
When the window sits in the background, updating pauses and catches up when you switch back, so a forgotten popout won’t poll for hours. The filter bar hides what you don’t care about – if you only watch subs and donations, click follows and raids away.
When ten follows arrive in a single minute
This is where a glance to the side pays off most. If an unusual number of follows arrives in a short window, the feed shows a warning – the typical shape of a followbot wave. Right next to it sits Pause alerts: one click, and chat alerts and overlay notifications stop firing until you resume them.
It’s the same emergency switch as on your dashboard start page and as !alerts off in chat – you just reach it without leaving the page. If you’ve also switched on followbot protection in your follow alerts, the bot turns on Twitch’s shield mode when it detects a wave; Twitch has further tools of its own, such as suspicious user controls.
Switching it on – and deciding who reads along
The feed is its own module and off by default. You’ll find it in the sidebar under Statistics → Activity Feed and turn it on with one click – only the channel owner can. You don’t need statistics for it; the modules are independent. Switching the feed back off doesn’t just stop recording, it deletes the entries already stored.
Your mods do not see the feed automatically. It has its own permission, off out of the box, because the feed lists donations with the donor’s name and amount. If you want your mods watching along, grant it under mod permissions. Like the rest of the stream tools, the activity feed is free.
Frequently asked questions
How do I get started?
Sign in with your Twitch account, add the bot to your channel and switch the feed on – that’s it. No account with another provider needed; if you’re weighing alternatives, the background is in our piece on Razer acquiring StreamElements.
What about last week’s events?
Those stay empty. Recording begins when you switch the feed on – so if it sounds useful, turn it on today rather than the day before your big stream.
Do Ko-fi or Tipeeestream donations show up?
No. Only donations processed through ByteMate appear. Ko-fi and Tipeeestream payments still trigger your alerts, they just aren’t part of the feed.
Does this replace the activity feed in my Twitch dashboard?
It complements it. Twitch’s own feed lives in the Creator Dashboard and shows what the platform sees. The ByteMate feed mixes your donations in, filters, keeps 90 days and runs in its own window next to OBS.
Bottom line
An activity feed turns the noise of a live stream into something readable – and the moment things go wrong into a single click. If you already stream with two monitors, setting it up costs two minutes. Everything else in this and previous releases is in the status and changelog area.
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