What is BTTV (BetterTTV) and How to Install it for Twitch

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What is BTTV (BetterTTV) and How to Install it for Twitch

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  • Use BTTV or BetterTTV to enhance Twitch with new features, emotes, and more options.
  • BetterTTV currently supports Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.
  • If you are a streamer, once you connect your Twitch account, access the control panel to add emotes to your channel and choose 15 shared emotes.

BTTV, also known as BetterTTV, is a third-party browser extension that allows viewers to use emotes and animated spots in Twitch chat. The extension doesn’t run these emotes through Twitch directly, letting you use emotes that have been taken down on Twitch. BTTV offers extra emoticons, username, word and phrase highlighting, an anon chat feature, and lets you hide visual noises like bits. You can install the extension on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Configure the chat settings by clicking the BTTV settings from the user dropdown menu on Twitch. If you need any help while using BetterTTV, you can type "/help" in chat to see the list of BetterTTV chat commands. BetterTTV also has a monthly payment subscription called BetterTTV Pro, which gives viewers the option to add more broadcasts and gives them preference in service.

How to Install BTTV

BetterTTV currently supports Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Here are the steps to install BTTV for Twitch:

1. Install the extension by going to the BetterTTV website and installing the extension for your browser. Use the drop-down to change your browser.

What is BTTV (BetterTTV) and How to Install it for Twitch
Use the BetterTTV website to download the extension. | Source: BTTV

2. Go to Twitch and click the gear icon on the bottom right corner to access settings.

What is BTTV (BetterTTV) and How to Install it for Twitch
Change the BetterTTV settings by clicking on the gear icon. | Source: Twitch

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3. Here you can select BetterTTV settings and change them according to your requirements.

What is BTTV (BetterTTV) and How to Install it for Twitch
You can change various settings for BTTV here. | Source: Twitch

If you are a Twitch streamer, once you connect your Twitch account, access the control panel to add emotes to your channel and choose 15 shared emotes. Use the dashboard to add bots, editors and link up your BetterTTV extension with Discord.

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Nutan is experienced with content across various FPS, MOBA, and BR titles for both PC and mobile gaming. Basically, she's a Jill of all trades. As the former captain of an all-woman esports team, her roots lie firmly in PC gaming but she does enjoy that one map in Call of Duty: Mobile.