Any Twitch account that already had verified bot status will continue to have the higher Whisper limit of 20 per second, up to 1200 per minute, for 100,000 accounts per day.
So that will be going away…
I find it interesting that it’s not too difficult to have rate limits based on account type and even when the account got that status, but it’s too difficult to not make developers jump through hoops just so things continue working, albeit with higher bandwidth requirements and additional latency.
It makes me think of a Steve Ballmer quote preceded with one of his favorite words.