Raid

A Twitch feature in which a streamer ending their broadcast sends their live viewers to another streamer's channel, arriving as a sudden burst of named "raiders."

A raid is a Twitch feature that lets a streamer direct their active viewers to another streamer’s channel as the broadcast ends. Raiders arrive as a sudden spike of named chat participants, typically heralded by “raid messages” in chat. Raiding is one of Twitch’s core community-building primitives — it’s how smaller streamers are discovered, how friend-group networks reinforce each other’s audience, and how hype moments cascade across channels.