I would like to keep this topic alive as Xambey brought up a problem that I have been waiting for a fix for. My bot needs to be able to START a conversation with other people yet it seems that I can only send a message using the “PRIVMSG /w” method if there is already an existing conversation. Is there a simple workaround for this? I know it can be done but most of the methods involve me adding quite a bit just to get around this problem that twitch has.
And like tduva said it is not a security feature to prevent spamming as you can start conversations using your browser.
Please fix this soon!