Bot getting delay when trying to read recent followers - but not my browser

is it possible that whatever method you are using on your bot to fetch the data from the api, has built in caching? so basically it caches the result locally and keeps on replying with that instead of the hot data from the server?

A lot of libraries used for HTTP requests have this issue since it’s normally quite useful, so it’s on by default. Check in the docs if there is a way to prevent caching on requests.

Hope this helps