Twitch will now let users have threaded conversations

The feature, which was tested last year, is now available to everyone. You can activate it using keyboard shortcuts or by hovering the mouse button over a comment and clicking the arrow icon.

Those who have seen a Twitch stream know how chaotic the chat section can get. You can tag a specific user to talk to them directly, but following a specific conversation is nearly impossible. To make things manageable, Twitch is introducing threaded conversations, a feature that's already available with other social apps.

Chat Replies help you keep the conversation going, even when chat is going off.

Try out new message threads, keyboard shortcuts and more, now available to all communities on Twitch.

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Twitch is calling it Chat Replies, and you can make use of the capability by clicking the arrow icon over a message and typing in your response. There's another way to do this, which involves keyboard shortcuts. To start a threaded conversation, enter the @username of the person that you would like to respond to, select the appropriate username by navigating through the list of suggested users, and press ALT (Windows) / OPTION (Mac) + ENTER. Once a threaded conversation is initiated, the Chat button changes to a Reply button.

Twitch chat is instrumental for creators, as it lets them build communities on the site, so it's possible that this capability could improve these connections.