That's $414 worth of "Cheering" right there. Twitch, the popular game-streaming site, has a funding problem. Not related to the company -- it's owned by Amazon and is just fine -- but its streamers.

Twitch are introducing a new system for viewers to support broadcasters called Cheering. It uses a special microtransaction currency tied to your account to allow you to send flashy messages in ...

Thanks to Twitch’s new community support system, streamers earned millions of dollars in additional revenue last year. According to Twitch’s Year in Review mini-game, viewers gave 590 million “Bits” ...