Twitch channel
lookup
Account age, Affiliate or Partner status, whether they are live right now, and their latest broadcasts and clips. All public information, so nobody has to log in.
What a channel lookup can and cannot tell you
Twitch publishes a small amount of information about every account without requiring anyone to log in: the account's numeric ID, its login and display names, the date it was created, whether it is an Affiliate or Partner, and its profile text. If the channel is broadcasting, the current title, category, viewer count and start time are public too, and saved past broadcasts and clips are public wherever the broadcaster has kept them. That is everything this page shows.
About the numeric user ID
It is public rather than private — it appears in Twitch's own API responses and in plenty of third-party tools, and it cannot be used to contact or identify anyone. It is also genuinely useful in one narrow situation: usernames can be changed and reused, so if you are configuring a bot or checking whether two accounts are the same one, the ID is the only stable handle. That is why it is shown small and at the bottom rather than as a headline figure.
About Partner tiers
Twitch's public API reports exactly three states: a standard account, Affiliate, or Partner. The higher revenue splits that some Partners negotiate are private contract terms and are not published anywhere, by Twitch or by anyone else. Any tool claiming to show a creator's revenue share is guessing.
About past broadcasts
A past broadcast only appears if the broadcaster has VOD saving switched on, and Twitch deletes saved broadcasts after 7 days for standard accounts, 14 for Affiliates, and 60 for Partners. So an empty list here does not mean somebody has never streamed — far more often it means they do not save VODs, or have not streamed recently enough.
What is not public
Follows, subscriptions and watch history are not public. A tool that claims to show you who follows an arbitrary channel, or when a stranger followed it, is either wrong or is using access it should not have. ViewerVitals will only ever show you your own relationships, and only after you have explicitly authorised it — and it will always say which of the two you are looking at.
Account creation dates are also not proof of anything on their own. A long-standing account can be bought or compromised, and a new account is not automatically suspicious. Treat the date as one detail among several.