Community management - interaction with your audience

Interaction with your audience is where your twitch streaming meets community management.

Scheduling live streams
From the start, you should communicate with your audience the conditions of your live streams. Do you want to stream regularly, during a certain allocated time slot? Or do you prefer to just come live when it suits your schedule? Either way, communicating this to your audience in advance can help manage expectations and set the stage, and avoid disappointments.
A good tool to broadcast your upcoming live stream is buffer, a tool that allows you to broadcast a message or post to several linked platforms. Tools like these reduce workload and can increase your viewer count if you use them right before you go live.

Interacting with viewers.
One of Twitch’s strongest features is the ease of interaction with your audience. In fact, many life streams fall within the IRL (in real life) category, that consists of a person chatting and reacting to content from the audience. So you should make use of this feature as much as possible. It will also help you build an audience for your streaming channel

Building a community.
Many Twitch streamers take it one step further, and create a space outside the life stream for their community to gather. Discord is a cheap option to create a space for your growing community, and also allows you to broadcast your upcoming live streams. However, building a community is more than free pizza. If you want to learn more about fostering your community, you can have a look here.