Legacy Chatters endpoint shutdown details and timeline - April 2023

Join/part messages are not sent on channels over 1,000 viewers, and there are also limitations to how they are sent, for example a join may not be sent until the user sends a message.

As for the chatter list on the Twitch site itself, the list states:

Some active viewers and chatters in the community.

So the public means of getting info on chatters wont be accurate. Where as the Get Chatters endpoint will be a more complete list of chatters and without the issues of using joins/parts.

To some degree it’s similar to how a channels subscribers is partially public in that sub badges when a user send chat messages indicates their subscriber status, but to get a full list of a broadcasters subscribers can only be obtained with their explicit consent to your app.

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