I totally agree with you - I don't understand how a user getting Botted Followers matters
1) Viewers are watching a streamer because they enjoy the content, not how many followers they have
2) Twitch reviews your statistics before promoting you into the Twitch Partner Program, the number of followers has no impact on your success into the program
3) There are so many good ways to use this follow tool to help aspiring streamers grow. My application made it so streamers could share clip moments and these could serve as a preview to their channel where viewers could hit the follow button and go on to the next form of content
The new solution is tough - now we would have to redirect someone to twitch, they would have to log in, before they could follow an end user and have a chance at watching them in the future
To eliminate these because some bot accounts are inflating the number of followers a streamer has seems to hurt the 99% of streamers that could benefit from this API kit
@ZoeS17
I totally agree with you - I don't understand how a user getting Botted Followers matters
1) Viewers are watching a streamer because they enjoy the content, not how many followers they have
2) Twitch reviews your statistics before promoting you into the Twitch Partner Program, the number of followers has no impact on your success into the program
3) There are so many good ways to use this follow tool to help aspiring streamers grow. My application made it so streamers could share clip moments and these could serve as a preview to their channel where viewers could hit the follow button and go on to the next form of content
The new solution is tough - now we would have to redirect someone to twitch, they would have to log in, before they could follow an end user and have a chance at watching them in the future
To eliminate these because some bot accounts are inflating the number of followers a streamer has seems to hurt the 99% of streamers that could benefit from this API kit