Slow updates of follower count using GET-requests?

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So I am slowly getting the hang of using ajax requests under jquery , but I noticed that
GET requests (see code) seem to take ages (~50s) to update follower count etc .

Is this normal ? If so , how come follower alerts like Nightdevs register followers/subs almost instantly ?
Thanks for the help :relaxed:

$.ajax({
                url: 'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/' + channel_name +'/follows' ,
                type: 'GET',
                dataType: 'jsonp',
                contentType: 'application/json',
                mimeType: 'application/vnd.twitchtv.v2+json',
                success: function(json_result) {
                     $('#test').text(json_result._total);
   
                }
            });
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Iā€™m sure Night will correct me. But the Night follower updater, on a decent hit gets a nice chunk of followers to work thru (on the dropdown/popup) so by the time itā€™s finished animating them all, a nice new stack is ready.

But Twitch advises that you shouldnā€™t be hitting more than once per minute on a given end point, as the end point is ā€œstaticā€ for that minute and updates once per minute or so anyway. Fugi posts about the ā€œcacheā€ here

Subscribers updates in real time as Night is polling Twitch chat for the ā€œx has subscribedā€ message in chat.

I have seen the same behaviour you describe, (taking a minute to change) when polling the followers end point. Itā€™s not a fault. Itā€™s just how it works. And other trackers/larger channels just illusion quicker as large channels, get large stacks of new followers per minute, so a queue exists to process the stack.

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This is essentially what is going on. As far as Iā€™ve come to understand, Twitch now heavily caches the followers endpoint now due to the excessive use by alerters. Even so, my alerter polls once per 15 seconds. Itā€™s possible that the longer caching is what is causing your alerts to show up slower.

I run a websocket TMI relay service that allows me to listen for new subscribers in chat. I donā€™t poll any endpoint for subscribers.

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ā€œPollā€ was the wrong word by me. Apologies!

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