So, I have been in some channels that do text follow notification and it generally takes 1-2 seconds before the bot says “Thanks for following… blah blah blah” on stream alerts are usually 10-15 seconds (i assumed this was due to the 10 second delay). I don’t think I have ever seen it take anywhere near a minute for a streamlabs alert/text bot alert to fire unless there are many many alerts queued.
There is no follow alert sent in the IRC interface is there? I know some things are handled differently in there.