# Hosted notification

**URL:** <https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/hosted-notification/16939>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [August 3, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/hosted-notification/16939 "2018-08-03T18:27:05Z")\
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There are indeed “several bots” that get “special treatment”\*.

\*By “special treatment”: They are very large programs [that need a higher rate limit because of how many channels they manage (Which any developer can request to get as well)](https://dev.twitch.tv/limit-increase). Whereas a small bot does not need to retrieve their channel information twice every second.

From my experience I believe that you don’t need to be logged into the _broadcaster_ and _chat bot_ account to receive the _HOST_ notices in chat. Only that these chat messages get sent to the _person doing the hosting_ and not the chat of the _hostee_. (I could be mistaken, but my bot doesn’t log in as the broadcaster and I recall seeing these notices)

So if you’re wanted to know when your channel _hosts somebody_ and not _when somebody else hosts you_ then simply refer [to the following NOTICE documentation](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc/commands/#hosttarget-twitch-commands).

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**Host starts:**

```
> :tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #hosting_channel <channel> [<number-of-viewers>]

```

**Host ends:**

```
> :tmi.twitch.tv HOSTTARGET #hosting_channel :- [<number-of-viewers>]
```

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