Renaming your Twitch chat bot for branding
Strengthen your brand by renaming your Twitch chat bot to your chosen name. The bot will reflect your brand in all its chat messages and community interactions.
Your Moobot will operate under any name you assign to it, provided you have access to the corresponding Twitch account.
This Twitch account can be a separate account registered specifically for your Twitch chat bot, uniquely named to reflect your brand, or any other account you have access to.
Additional benefits to renaming your Twitch chat bot
With your custom-named Twitch bot, you also have these additional benefits:
- Your Twitch chat bot runs on its own separate server, fully managed by Moobot, which means it's faster and more reliable than the default Moobot that all of Twitch shares.
- You can choose the Twitch bot's color appearance in chat.
- You can select which badges the Twitch bot displays in chat.
- You can have the Twitch bot subscribed to you, proudly displaying your sub-badge in your chat. If you're a Twitch Partner, you can also get a free (lifetime!) subscription for your bot by following this Twitch help article.
Renaming the Twitch bot
Follow these steps to rename your Twitch chat bot:
- First, open the
«Features»menu from the main menu, then open the«Special features»menu.
- In the
«Special features»menu, find the«Custom bot name»feature and activate the toggle to the right-hand side of the feature.
- Subscribe to the feature through the separate menu by clicking the
«Subscribe»button and completing the subscription process. - Begin granting the
«Twitch bot account access»requirement by clicking the«Grant»button in the requirements menu.
- Click
«Next»in the information prompt that appears, instructing you to log in to Twitch as the account you want Moobot to act as.
- In the new pop-up window that opens, click the
«not you?»link at the top part of the window (next to your user thumbnail.)
Clicking the«not you?»link will allow you to sign in to or register the Twitch account you want Moobot to act as.
- Log in or sign up with the Twitch account you want Moobot to act as.
- Click the
«Authorize»button at the bottom of the page.
- Add your bot's account as a Twitch moderator of your channel. You can do this directly from your dashboard's status widget, in your Twitch chat, or through your Twitch Roles page.
Your custom bot name should now be active!
Adding a bot badge for your renamed Twitch bot
If you and your viewers are using the BetterTTV extension, you can get a bot badge for your bot in Twitch chat by adding the bot in your BTTV channel settings.
