# Upcoming "New Follower" WebHook Question and Suggestion

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/upcoming-new-follower-webhook-question-and-suggestion/12124>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [September 21, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/upcoming-new-follower-webhook-question-and-suggestion/12124 "2017-09-21T21:00:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![therobanddanshow](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/therobanddanshow/32/2496_2.png) [@therobanddanshow](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/therobanddanshow)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/upcoming-new-follower-webhook-question-and-suggestion/12124/1 "2017-09-21T21:00:52Z")

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How will the upcoming “New Follower” WebHook handle potential Follow spam? (follow/unfollow/follow/unfollow/follow)

I would assume that it could not be retriggered within a set period of time. However, i would personally suggest making it so once someone follows a channel, a hidden value in their User Information (only accessible by Twitch) remembers that they followed at some point in their accounts life-span, and even if they unfollow and refollow (due to whatever reason), the WebHook would never report another follow after the first initial follow.

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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:** [September 21, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/upcoming-new-follower-webhook-question-and-suggestion/12124/2 "2017-09-21T21:17:22Z")

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Personally I would leave that processing to the 3rd party application to determine. A follow event is a follow event regardless if they were previously following or not.

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**Author:** ![VitruxPT](https://d3ovvz0v2ajtpu.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.dev.twitch.com/vitruxpt/32/2242_2.png) [@VitruxPT](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/VitruxPT)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/upcoming-new-follower-webhook-question-and-suggestion/12124/3 "2017-09-21T21:49:35Z")

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I agree with @george. That should be something a 3rd party app would have to handle accordingly.

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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:** [October 21, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/upcoming-new-follower-webhook-question-and-suggestion/12124/4 "2017-10-21T21:49:36Z")

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Closed on October 21, 2017, 9:49pm UTC

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