The moment it happens

Announce new followers and subscribers

Every new follow or sub on your channel shows up in Slack as it happens.

Runs: The moment it happens
Apps: Twitch
AI: Not needed
Access: moderator:read:followers, channel:read:subscriptions

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: when someone follows or subscribes to my Twitch channel, post their name and whether it was a follow or a sub to #community in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Small and mid-size streamers feel a new follower or subscriber as a moment worth acknowledging, but while streaming they cannot watch a feed. The overlay alerts only help when you are on air, and a subscription that arrives overnight or while you are away goes unnoticed. Thanking people quickly builds loyalty, and a missed thank-you quietly makes a community feel ignored.

When Twitch reports a new follower or subscriber on your channel, this formats the details, such as the username and whether it is a follow or subscription, and posts a message where you read it. The message arrives as the event happens.

Streamers with a team or moderators often send it to a shared chat channel. Every event is captured, whether or not an overlay was running at the time, so none are missed overnight or while away.

What you get out of it

Thank new supporters promptly
A thank-you the same day makes a new subscriber feel seen. People who are acknowledged tend to stay, which supports the revenue behind a channel you are trying to grow.
Know about events when you are offline
Subs and follows that arrive between streams are still captured. You open your messages to a clear list of who joined, instead of wondering what happened while you were away.
Moderators can help welcome people
Posting to a shared channel lets your team greet newcomers by name. A community gets a warmer feel when several people notice and respond quickly to new members. That kind of attention is easy to share around a team.
Subscription events stand out
Subscribers are separated from simple follows in the message, so the more valuable events get extra attention. You can prioritize thanking someone who just paid. Paying members deserve a faster acknowledgment than casual followers do.
A record of growth over time
The stream of messages doubles as a log of when your audience grew. Looking back, you can connect spikes with specific streams, raids or posts. It becomes a simple timeline you can look back on later.

How it works

What happens, step by step

When someone follows or subscribes to your Twitch channel, Twitch tells ClickRuntime straight away.
ClickRuntime works out whether it was a follow or a subscription, and the subscription tier.
A message appears in your #community Slack channel, such as "acme_gamer subscribed (tier 1)".

Before it runs live

Connect Twitch
Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

RunsThe moment it happens

Announce new followers and subscribersjust nowSucceeded

Slack · #community⭐ acme_gamer subscribed (tier 1)

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Twitch steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

new_follower_subscriber_alert.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_event, notify

@on_event
def handle(event):
    body = event.json or {}
    kind = body.get("subscription", {}).get("type")
    e = body.get("event") or {}
    if kind == "channel.follow":
        text = f"💜 {e['user_name']} followed the channel"
    elif kind == "channel.subscribe":
        text = f"⭐ {e['user_name']} subscribed (tier {int(e['tier']) // 1000})"
    else:
        return {"skipped": kind}
    notify.slack(text, channel="#community")
    return {"type": kind}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it include gifted subscriptions and bits?

The events it receives depend on what you subscribe to in Twitch. Follows and subscriptions are the standard ones, and gifted subs or cheers can be added as separate events if you want them reported.

Do I need to be a Twitch Affiliate?

Subscriber events require an Affiliate or Partner channel, because only those channels have subscriptions. Follower events are available to any channel, so a new streamer can still get follow alerts. Without an Affiliate or Partner status, subscriptions simply do not exist for the channel.

Where can the alert be posted?

In any channel that you connect, such as Slack or Discord, or sent by email. Choose the place you look at when you are not streaming, since overlay alerts already cover the time you are live.

What permissions does it need?

moderator:read:followers, channel:read:subscriptions. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run for each event the app sends.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

The moment it happens