Stream Can Receive Whispers But Viewers Cannot

[joshuaskelly]

Summary

A bot can send whispers to the streamer but cannot send whispers to a viewer.

[PythooonUser]

According to this thread (https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/whispers-on-irc/2459):

• You must be connected to group chat - whispers are not sent over the normal chat servers
• You must sent CAP REQ :twitch.tv/commands in order to receive whispers
• Sending: PRIVMSG #jtv :/w otherusername HeyGuys
• Receiving: :otherusername!otherusername@otherusername.tmi.twitch.tv WHISPER yourusername :HeyGuys

However:

(June 2015) We purposely made whispers convoluted for IRC integration because we didn't want users and bot developers to become reliant on receiving user-to-user messages via IRC. We have plans to stop using TMI to send user-to-user messages and instead use a new system (and protocol) entirely.

Also interesting: https://discuss.dev.twitch.tv/t/have-a-chat-whisper-bot-let-us-know/10651.

[PythooonUser]

The issue is rather old now, but maybe this is a configuration problem? A user on Twitch can protect himself from receiving whispers from anonymous users using some settings.