First timer - Getting 'No response from Twitch'

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The token to authenticate your chatbot with Twitch’s servers. Generate this with Twitch Chat Password Generator (a Twitch community-driven wrapper around the Twitch API), while logged in to your chatbot account. The token will be an alphanumeric string.

Then in opts the username needs to be the same user name you did the twitchApps loop with.