I do like this idea and I believe that this feature would change the overall content dynamics for everyone. The amount of things you can do with this as a feature is amazing.

Until this feature is added, you can use StreamElements (and I am sure there are other sites) to reward viewers. The only thing is that I believe you have to do it one person at a time rather than giving rewards to everyone viewing like was mentioned in the OP.

Twitch is sleeping on a great idea here and I think, eventually, it will be added.

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.

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.

NO

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.

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.

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

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.

Yeah, how do we make this a thing!

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.

This would also help with bugs and glitches for sound alerts since those can't be refunded

Yes, we need that, it would be awesome and can make engagement

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 ^^

If I’m at 99.9k channelpoints someone can give me 100 channelpoints

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.

You need an option as Streamer to give Channelpoints to you Viewers.

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.

Streamers could give channel points to viewers.

Streamers could give channel points to viewers.

i saw someone do this today so i guess it’s a thing!!