Livestream Viewer Counter: Shows how many people are watching the video. Viewers can come from multiple sources like the Twitch web, app, embed (players on other websites), video player, TV, Viewerbots, Twitch frontpage, Amazon Products, viewbotting and others. Remember the viewer count goes down and up on Ad views/Advertising, these ups and downs are not accurate and not the real ad-view numbers.

In Chat Count: Shows the number of people in the Twitch chat. People in chat are counted differently. The Twitch chat has to be open and logged in with an account to be counted. It also includes bots that are always online but do not count as viewers. The count likely works as follows: When a user opens the stream and chat, they are counted as online for around 5 minutes, even if they leave the stream immediately. Only fans in chat are eligible for twitch raids. If you see a larger chat than viewers, they usually come from other streamer raids, and they probably fell asleep or forgot a tab and o_O the player crashed.

How to detect View Botting and Fake Counts? Viewer Bots are paid bot viewers that are not actually watching the stream, but they make it appear more interesting for new viewers (AND THAT WORKS, fake it till you make it). Bots come in packages with 100, 500, 1k, 2k, or even more viewers for a specific amount of time. Starting and ending the stream with ~7.5k bots makes you Twitch World Top 200 and attracts real viewers/followers. Most of the time, they are not in the chat. If they are in the chat, you can see almost the same numbers on both counters, and if you check the chatter username list, you'll find usernames that look like akqpzyn27194 & bjhexaip91371. Very commonly, the viewer count remains stable over a very long period of time and the chat count don't match the viewership increases. If you see a huge difference (> 40 percent) in the viewer and chatter count, then something is not quite right. There can be various reasons for this, but it is abnormal. However, viewers can also come from big Twitch raids, so be vigilant and don't get scammed. Remember that both viewer numbers do not update at the same time, give the count's a couple minutes before you accuse someone for viewbotting.