Allow streamers to give channel points to viewers/entire chat
The channel points right now are just based on streaks and time spent in a chat. What would make it perfect is the ability to award your viewers or entire chat with an amount of points you choose as well. If it were possible to award points yourself in addition to the twitch integrated method of earning points it would be perfect.
For example:
-I could choose to award the whole chat 100 points each when we get raided.
-I could choose to award a specific viewer 50 points for telling the best joke.

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disturbed1471 commented
I wanted to make a mini-game with channel points as rewards then I found out how limited Channel points API is, it should be called Channel rewards API. Please, implement the real Channel points API.
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xLootG0blinx commented
I Googled this this hoping it was already a feature 😭 today is my first stream as an Affiliate and I wanted to give 1,000 points to all of the followers who helped me reach this point.
I priced all my redemption really low so 1,000 points would give them 10 sound alerts, let them guide the raid, or get halfway to my biggest reward which is me playing a ghost hunting game without my glasses for 5 minutes. It would have made my Affiliate debut that much more fun.
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don_digo commented
NO
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PlokGamingTwitch commented
I agree with what some people are saying about relying on 3rd party applications for loyalty points. Having an option for streamer (and perhaps even mods) to give out channel points would be good. I'd like to expand the suggestion by adding a new API endpoint for channel-point management. That way 3rd party developers will still be able to hook into a loyalty system.
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LuzielErebus commented
Points are absurdly restrictive. Awarding points to viewers at will could allow us to move our point systems from StreamLabs or StreamElements to Twitch for good. Or reward behaviors. Create award-winning channel minigames, or whatever we came up with. But if we can't program our own points, they will still suck compared to much older Loyalty services on other platforms.
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ItsPrynsess commented
This is a great idea to increase engagement! I had this idea and it only works if I’m allowed to reward chat some channel points in the future
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kozaka commented
I do multiple things in my stream. And sometimes I forget to turn off for the actual stream irrelevant rewards, so if they redeem that reward, they just lost the points. This time it would be great if we could add points back.
Or in scene X there is cam what you can redeem via channel points, but not on scene Y. If they redeem when scene Y is on, they lost the points. We can not control fast the rewards (turn off automatically on scene Y for example).... But there will be no change here (very fast) I think. Channel points are introduced almost exactly 1 year ago...but not really changed there anything.
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SirHamChop commented
Yeah, how do we make this a thing!
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KylePhillipsFun commented
Especially with predictions, if there's ever a time where I accidentally pick the wrong choice, there's no way to rectify that situation. Or if someone accidentally bets 4,000 points instead of 400 for example, I can't fix this. It would also be nice, like others have said, if we could dole out channel points as we see fit for rewards and what not.
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YvonneKristine commented
This would also help with bugs and glitches for sound alerts since those can't be refunded
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N_E_R_U commented
Yes, we need that, it would be awesome and can make engagement
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GorcanTV commented
YES PLEASE !
I hold a "tournament" on my channel and I want to be able to give channel points to the winners as a reward !
I don't know why such basic feature is still not implemented in 2021, and at this point, I'm too afraid to ask ^^ -
urboyandee commented
If I’m at 99.9k channelpoints someone can give me 100 channelpoints
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BlackWolfSeoul commented
Twitch please add this. I always want to show my love and appreciation for viewers by showering them with things they can use to interact with me and my channel points are a big part of that. Please add this feature.
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Tuniax commented
You need an option as Streamer to give Channelpoints to you Viewers.
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Rapid96x commented
Please can you add this feature where the Streamer can give any amount of channel points to a specific viewer. This would make the channel points feature alot more interesting and encourage viewers to stop by to the streams alot more and can help with engagement aswell.
The command could be ran like this.
!give 100{nameofyourchannelpoints} {user} or !give 100{nameofyourchannelpoints} {user}
If Twitch can include this. Then the channel points feature would skyrocket (in a good way of course lol)
Please add this Twitch the majority of this community would love for this to be added.
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PaprikaLeves commented
Streamers could give channel points to viewers.
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PaprikaLeves commented
Streamers could give channel points to viewers.
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lizzyraexx commented
i saw someone do this today so i guess it’s a thing!!
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phjook commented
Can we get this some traction? It would add a nice level of interaction in streams for mini games.