Can you pass on your Twitch account when you die?
Twitch Interactive reviews requests about a Twitch account after a death case by case.
Protecting Twitch accounts while the account is active
No beneficiary designation, accounts can only be redeemed, not transferred, and 6-step plan.
How to protect your Twitch account while you are alive →Someone died. Handling Twitch accounts after a death
Transfer is handled on a case-by-case basis, 4-step process, and 0 required documents.
What happens to a Twitch account when someone dies →Twitch is a livestreaming platform owned by Amazon where streamers earn revenue through subscriptions, Bits and ads. A Twitch account holds the channel, follower base, subscriber revenue, accumulated earnings, VODs and clips.
Twitch Interactive decides what happens to a Twitch account after a death case by case; its terms promise no transfer. Twitch Interactive allows no transfer of the account while the holder is alive.
What happens to Twitch at death
- Case by case
Twitch has no memorialization feature; a family member or representative contacts Twitch Support about the account, and Twitch helps with each request after verifying key details. The requests it names are cancelling charges, video content and deleting the account.1
Naming who acts after a death
- Designation
Twitch offers no way to name someone to act on the account after a death, and its Terms of Service bar transferring or sharing an account unless Twitch expressly permits it in writing.2
Sources2
- 1.Managing A Deceased Person's Account
- 2.Terms of Service, last modified 08/12/2026
Twitch Interactive publishes its own process for a deceased person's account: Twitch Contact Us: Privacy, Deceased User; a request goes in through Twitch Interactive's online form. There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Twitch account.
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