What is Whozon? Its a simple app that built by a Twitch streamer for other streamers. Its purpose is to answer the question:
Is there anybody out there?
There are some 7.2m people who are streaming on Twitch.tv currently. Most of those people are streaming to a handful of viewers (or in many cases 0 viewers). Only the top 0.01% of streamers have an appreciable audience.
The tools that Twitch provides don’t really help you with determining if you have any real viewers watching your stream – they don’t distinguish between actual people watching you on their screen and bot accounts who are just logged into chat and doing whatever they are doing. If you click on Users in Chat Twitch just shows everyone who is logged into Twitch and who has joined your chat in the same list. Its very difficult to determine if there are actually any people watching you out there.
Enter Whozon
If you enable Whozon (using the link below or the menu entry on the top of the page), you will be asked to grant the application permission to access some of your Twitch channel information. In turn it will display a webpage showing the current users in your chat, breaking them down to show who is a viewer, a moderator or a bot. It will highlight your subscribers, your VIPs, indicate those who have not followed you, show your total followers and indicate if you are currently streaming or if you are offline.
Okay so what’s the catch? Not much really. This app is completely free for you to use with all of its current features. Currently Whozon updates every minute. When the app finally goes live I intend to ask users who subscribe to my Twitch channel – Twitch.tv/thatfontguy – to help support the app and cover my server costs. At that point the app will update every 5 mins if you aren’t subscribed rather than every minute. If you have Amazon Prime you can throw me that subscription and it won’t cost you a thing.
So you are free to see if it works for you and sub if you like it. Your subscription money will help me pay for the server and the maintenance required to keep this going. Did I mention the database of 19,000 bots that this compares your viewers to in order to determine who is a bot account and who isn’t? Someone has to maintain that list to keep things up to date. There are tools on the bottom of the Whozon page that allow you to check the name of any viewer to see if they are listed as a bot, and a tool to submit that name to my server. I will then review those submissions and add them to the database if warranted.
If you wish to disconnect your Twitch account from Whozon you can do any time by visiting this link: Disconnect