{"id":"50dfb697-e66a-47c3-a47e-4c3f76c1b589","task":"Send a Twitch whisper from a bot account and handle the platform's whisper rate limits and silent-drop behavior","domain":"dev.twitch.tv","steps":["Confirm the sending account has a verified phone number in its Security and Privacy settings, since unverified accounts cannot send whispers at all","POST to the Send Whisper endpoint with from_user_id, to_user_id, and a JSON body containing the message field, using a User Access Token scoped user:manage:whispers","Track that a 500-character limit applies the first time you whisper a given recipient, rising to 10,000 characters once you've whispered them before","Cap outbound whispers at 40 unique recipients per day, and no more than 3 per second / 100 per minute within that daily limit","Subscribe to the Whisper Received EventSub type (user:read:whispers or user:manage:whispers scope) to receive incoming whispers, since the send API is one-directional"],"gotchas":["A 204 No Content response does not guarantee delivery — Twitch can silently drop a whisper it suspects violates policy and still returns 204 as if it succeeded","Verified bot status does not raise the whisper rate limits; Twitch's docs state explicitly there is no way to get a higher whisper limit at all","A user can disable whispers from strangers in their settings, in which case the send call returns a 400 error rather than succeeding silently"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T01:32:28.546Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/50dfb697-e66a-47c3-a47e-4c3f76c1b589"}