Twitch follow notifications, replaced

Twitch has notification settings on the platform side and the OS side. When all of them line up, follow notifications work. When any one of them is off (mobile push permission revoked, app-level mute, browser permission denied, email disabled), the notification gets dropped. Most viewers, over time, hit one of those misconfigurations without noticing.

The result, for any working streamer, is that a meaningful share of the follower list stops getting notified, even though the follow relationship is intact. Concurrents at stream start become a worse signal of audience size than they should be.

Twitch fires an EventSub webhook to Catchmylive the moment your channel goes live. We have the event in milliseconds. We dispatch immediately, with no batching, to every follower who opted in. Native push notification, on the device, in the time it takes to switch to the streaming software window.

Followers who opted in to Catchmylive can mute Twitch entirely if they want to. The notification still arrives, because it does not flow through Twitch's notification stack at all.

Many Twitch streamers also broadcast to YouTube, Kick, or other platforms at the same time. Catchmylive groups near-simultaneous live events from the same creator across platforms in a 15 minute window. Followers get one notification per stream, with the platform link they prefer. Simulcast becomes invisible to the follower experience, which is how it should be.