Deprecation of Create and Delete Follows API Endpoints

Hi @EhsanKia, just wanted to jump in and say we appreciate your feedback. We’ve been working to provide a stable, long-term API and broader set of third-party products, and some of these changes are difficult decisions even from our perspective. The end goal is to be in a state with longer term products that you can rely on as you have mentioned other companies have provided. We are not intentionally being hostile, though I can understand interpreting some of these changes that way as a developer myself.

Removing the follow functionality from the API was a quick turnaround for sure. We understand it is a desired use case, so I’m curious myself if there are other ways Twitch can provide this functionality to third parties outside of the API and without the risk of abuse. It’s something to be discussed and what I’d like to advocate for in some way.

We consider all feedback that is submitted through UserVoice, so adding your comments and use cases to those suggestions and upvoting is definitely the right way to get those ideas to the right teams for consideration.