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Which networks are actually read, how to reply to a viewer from the studio, and what the panel deliberately does not do.

Updated November 5, 2026 · 3 min read

When you broadcast to several networks at once your audience is split across them. The Chat tab on the broadcast page gathers the comments into one place, so you are not keeping three browser tabs open while talking to a camera.

Which networks are read

This is where precision matters, because it is an easy promise to break:

• YouTube — the broadcast's live chat, including each commenter's name and picture.
• Facebook — the comments on the live video, separately for each Page you are broadcasting to.
• Our own player — if the broadcast is set to public, viewers on the watch page or the embedded player can write, and their messages arrive in the same list.

• Twitch and Kick — the channel's chat, read only. If Kick blocks the reading, the panel says so once.

Instagram, TikTok, X and LinkedIn are not read. If you are streaming there and the audience is writing, those comments will not reach this panel and you will need the network's own window.

The chat lives on the live broadcast page. The chat inside the podcast studio is a different thing entirely — it is between host and guests and never touches the networks.

The pace

YouTube is read every few seconds, at the rate YouTube itself dictates. Facebook is read roughly every six seconds and slows itself down when nothing is happening, so a quiet broadcast does not burn through request allowances. In practice a message appears within a few seconds rather than instantly.

Replying

Above the message box is a picker that decides where your message is sent from. You can reply to one specific channel or send to all active destinations at once. A message is limited to 500 characters, and it is posted to the network itself — meaning viewers there see it too, not only you.

Sent replies come back into the list marked as yours, so the conversation reads in order.

Replying works for YouTube and Facebook only. An attempt to send anywhere else returns an explicit message saying sending is not supported there, rather than disappearing silently.

Every message carries Reply and Quote, which fill the message box with a reference to the commenter.

What the panel does not do

Better to know this in advance than to hunt for a button mid-broadcast:

• There are no moderation tools. You cannot delete a message, mute a user, ban, or time someone out from here. Cleaning up a comment happens in the network's own interface. The moderator badge shown beside a YouTube commenter is an indicator only.
• A comment can be shown on screen. In the browser studio, the Comments button (Shift+C) puts a viewer's comment on the picture. Titles and lower thirds are still driven by text you type.
• Networks other than those listed above are not ingested.

One failure worth recognising

If a Facebook Page's permissions are insufficient, comment reading for that Page stops and a message is written into the list explaining that Facebook needs reconnecting. This usually follows a permissions change on Facebook's side rather than anything about the broadcast itself.

What is kept

History is stored and remains available after the broadcast. When you return to the room the most recent messages are reloaded so you do not come back to an empty screen. Chat text is deleted after about thirty days — that is a requirement of YouTube's developer policy rather than a choice of ours. The broadcast's own figures are kept and are not removed with it.

Viewers on the public player are rate-limited on how often and how much they can write, so the list cannot be flooded.

Frequently asked questions

Do Twitch comments appear?

Yes, read only: Twitch and Kick chat appear in the list next to YouTube, Facebook and viewers on our own player. To reply on Twitch you need the network's own window.

Is my reply visible to viewers on the network?

Yes. A message sent from here is posted into YouTube's live chat or Facebook's comments, not only into your own panel.

Can I delete an abusive comment?

Not from here. The unified chat has no moderation tools. Deleting, muting or banning is done in the interface of the network where the comment was written.

Can a comment be shown on screen during the broadcast?

Yes, in the browser studio: open Comments (Shift+C) and pick the comment to show it on the picture.

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