I was just going to add this suggestion to the forums myself--I routinely gift subscriptions to the channels I enjoy supporting and being able to *choose* the recipients of a multiple "gift bomb" of 5 subscriptions or more would be very much appreciated!

I personally never followed a Streamer that I got gifted by random. Most of them, I did not even went to there Channel and if I did (because there where online when I was in the moment I saw the gifted) I never found them interessting. - I would like to get real statistics which percentage followed after get gifted and I would be highly surprised if it got to the double digits.

XSOverLord, yes, that is the theoretical idea of how that should be a good thing. but i think you are missing the question that asked specifically about wanting to select certain usernames. if i am spending the money to gift subs and WANT to be specific, then that is what the question is about. if i want to just gift subs to rando's to support the streamer, then that is the actual function (which we are complaining about). i highly doubt random gift subs to non-followers actually brings in anyone new that would continue a sub. that sounds like something twitch "thinks" happens or is a good idea. but we also know twitch statistics are garbage as much as most of their new ideas always are (especially the new randomly started hype-trains). it is absolutely killing a lot of streamers revenue. instead of actually being a hype, it kills the cool-down timer for a more appropriately instigated potential hype.

There is a reason for this it sends the subs to people who watch your type of content which they will receive notifications attracting potential new followers to your channel whereas gifting to known people want grow your followers as they already following channel

"one at a time actually dulls my interest in giving more" exactly @VarlBGem

I've always wanted Twitch to have the ability to gift sub multiple people in chat, perhaps with some kind of code separator between user names? For example, JohnDoe; MaryLou; etc. It already does a good job finding the first specific viewer; all it needs is some kind of delineation marker between viewer names that the system can identify to separate unique viewers. Twitch, set a maximum if you must or let the streamer set one. One at a time actually dulls my interest in giving more, particularly for viewers that come by and stay and chat over multiple streams.

Has there been any update on allowing us to gift subs to multiple specific users at once?

I'm surprised this is such a long running idea, I would like a simple button so I could only gift people in chat or lurking, seems to be a community oriented action that many users would take advantage of.

Very good idea

I'm sure there are some people that don't see a need for this but it's very important to me to get this feature. Gifting subs to 5 specific people is tedious but sort of doable. I've gifted to 20 specific people before and it gets really frustrating very quickly. I've wanted to gift to more than 20 specific people and haven't because there's no way I'm going to go through that one by one.

I think it would be great if you go into a section in gift subs which lists people who aren't subbed and have been recently. Ordered by how much time/how often in stream. Then just tick which ones want to gift.Also on a related note add being able to gift somebody who isn't in channel on mobile! That's a basic feature lacking on mobile.

YES, PLEASSSEEEEE. I get gifted subs for channels I dont even remember going to, and surely will never return to, i feel for those users wasting their money (somewhat, although it still servers the channel owner as intended). Logically it would serve the channel owner better by allowing gifters to target active real individual users on the channel that are offering great contributions in chat.

@tinyjams, have you never gotten a sub to a channel you no know? I get them so often.
It is so freaking random.

I would love to have gifted subs being "stored" like bits, so I can buy a bundle of subs and gift them like I want.

How is it determined? You're telling me if I want to gift a 5-pack it goes to people not active? That's insane

Suggestion to add feature: Targeted multi gift subs.

For the longest time I think it holds true for my channel and many other channels that Gifted subs has made up a significant part of the economy of our channels on Twitch. A huge pain point I have encountered and heard voiced by so many others is the inconsistent algorithm of who gets the subs.

In general I like to reward the active chatting members of a community who are always there. At the same time, taking time out of my broadcast to click each name and gifted them individually might end up in to long of a break from my broadcast, and some people might end up leaving as they don't care to get subs. They just want to watch the content, thinking about this I came up with a solution I want to suggest.

Allow us to start a "sub gifting event" where we can make up a keyword for chat to enter. For instance "FreeSub". And then select a number 5,10,20 etc of gifted subs that we wish to give to our community. And then the first X amount of people who enter this keyword will be eligible for a sub token.

The event could either be auto completed once we reach the number of subs we wanted to give out. Or a button to complete the transaction could pop up at the end and we can verify it. I think I would lean towards the latter as there might be scenarios where you want to redo/correct it. Select the wrong amount of subs, or bots interfering with this.

I would also suggest giving this opportunity to community members where they can "Pre pay" and it pops up for the streamer and we can start the "gifting event". This is probably the best way to go about it so there won't be any trolls in chat trying to trick streamers into thinking they will be gifted.

Another point I would like to add at the end is that each individual sub we gift. We have to pay a processing fee as well. So this would in the long term save us some money on getting to selectively spread it out. Instead of having to gift over and over.

Welcome any feedback on this!

would love this implemented, currently a hassle to do by hand for several specific users and no API to cover sub gifting

It could be great that we can choose the users to whom we gift suscriptions when we gift more than 1.

For example, gift 5 by making a list with the names of the users

this, especially during a hype train, i want to gift lots of subs but i hate how they are so random, if i could do a comma delimited list to specific users then a single purchase, that would be beneficial for everyone... and easy to implement? or right click on chat name and add them to list.

Yes!

For the longest time, I've been only gifting 1 sub at a time because randomly gifting subs to the community regularly gives them to individuals that aren't even active in chat - how silly! >.<