# Clerification about message/command rate limit

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/clerification-about-message-command-rate-limit/8768>\
**Category:** Chat and IRC\
**Created:** [January 7, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/clerification-about-message-command-rate-limit/8768 "2017-01-07T11:56:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![HACKHERS](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/hackhers/32/2359_2.png) [@HACKHERS](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/HACKHERS)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/clerification-about-message-command-rate-limit/8768/1 "2017-01-07T11:56:22Z")

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Hello,

I know there are many topics like that but I can’t figure out something. I saw the post [Twitch Chat (from a Twitch Dev)](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/twitch-chat-from-a-twitch-dev/1108/5). I can’t understand the reason behind that If my bot joining let’s say 50 channels (10 of them are crowded). My bot is moderator on all these channels. So I can only send 100 messages in 30 sec for all these 50 channels? That makes 2 messages in 30 seconds. Isn’t it so low? (I know it’s hard to achieve that much channels but for example, moobot have that much I guess. And I saw these bots not whitelisted or anything like that so how these bots handle that limit?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![george](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/george/32/120_2.png) [@george](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/george)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/clerification-about-message-command-rate-limit/8768/2 "2017-01-07T16:23:07Z")

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The limit is per TCP connection so your assumption is correct. If you need to send more than that I would recommend contacting support with a detailed explanation of your use case (sample messages, usage numbers, etc.) and request to be white-listed which provides a higher rate limit.

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2opxh93rbxzdn.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/clerification-about-message-command-rate-limit/8768/3 "2017-02-06T16:23:16Z")

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Closed on February 6, 2017, 4:23pm UTC

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