# Webhook follower notification help

**URL:** <https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/webhook-follower-notification-help/22124>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [August 10, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/webhook-follower-notification-help/22124 "2019-08-10T18:31:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thial](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/thial/32/8033_2.png) [@Thial](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Thial)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/webhook-follower-notification-help/22124/1 "2019-08-10T18:31:19Z")

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Hello.  
Currently I’m trying to get follower notifications in my WPF twitch app and I have two questions.

1. Is there any other method of getting the new follower notifications other than webhook ?
2. I have noticed that you have to specify a callback url in the subscription. Does it mean that followers can only be handled via EBS or a web server in the app ? It seems quite redundant since many things can go wrong with setting up a web server on a personal PC and sending all notifications to the EBS could be quite bad along the normal EBS traffic.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/webhook-follower-notification-help/22124/2 "2019-08-10T18:33:45Z")

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> [@Thial](#):
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> Is there any other method of getting the new follower notifications other than webhook ?

You could constantly poll the API and work our who is new.

> [@Thial](#):
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> I have noticed that you have to specify a callback url in the subscription. Does it mean that followers can only be handled via EBS or a web server in the app ?

Correct.

Webhooks broadcast data from Twitch to a web accessible server you control.

Like PayPal payment notifications for example

> [@Thial](#):
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> It seems quite redundant since many things can go wrong with setting up a web server on a personal PC and sending all notifications to the EBS could be quite bad along the normal EBS traffic.

You could middle man by sending to a SQS queue and then long polling your SQS queue instead.

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**Author:** ![Thial](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/thial/32/8033_2.png) [@Thial](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/Thial)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/webhook-follower-notification-help/22124/3 "2019-08-10T18:35:45Z")

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Makes sense, thanks a lot Barry.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2spem0quai2ol.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/webhook-follower-notification-help/22124/4 "2019-09-09T18:35:47Z")

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