How to See Followers on Twitch
Everyone can see how many. Only you can see who. That changed, and it broke the tools built on the old behaviour.
How to see followers on Twitch, for your own channel: open the Creator Dashboard and go to the Community section. The follower list is there, with names and the date each person followed.
For anyone else's channel: you cannot. Twitch closed the public interface that exposed follow relationships, so the list of who follows a channel is no longer available to third parties.
The total is still public. Anyone can read how many followers a channel has from the channel page. What went away is the ability to enumerate them.
That asymmetry is the whole of the current situation, and it is why the sites that used to let you browse a rival streamer's follower list stopped working. They were not shut down individually; the data they read was closed off.
It is worth being precise about what changed, because a lot of advice online predates it and describes a Twitch that no longer exists.
Previously, follow relationships were retrievable through Twitch's public interfaces. Anyone could ask who followed a channel, or which channels an account followed, and get an answer. That supported a small ecosystem of analytics sites, follower-tracking tools, and services that would tell you who unfollowed you.
Twitch closed it. Now the follower list for a channel is available to that channel's owner, through the dashboard and through authenticated access to their own data, and to nobody else.
The practical consequences are uneven. Your own follower list is intact and arguably better presented than it used to be. Tools that tracked your own followers can still work if you authorise them against your own account. Tools that looked at other people's channels cannot work at all, and the ones still advertising that capability are either using stale data or showing you something invented.
And the one thing almost everyone wants — a list of who unfollowed — is not provided by Twitch in any form, which is why third parties filled that gap and why their disappearance was noticed.
Finding your own list
Creator Dashboard, then the Community section. The follower list shows names and follow dates, and it is sortable, which is more useful than it sounds — sorting by date shows you when growth happened and lets you line it up against what you were streaming.
It is a web view primarily. The mobile app surfaces some of this, but the full list is more reliably reached through a browser, which is the usual answer when someone cannot find it on their phone.
The list is yours in the sense that it covers your channel. It does not tell you anything about those accounts beyond the name and the date, and there is no view showing you which of them are actually watching.
Can people see who you follow?
Not through Twitch. The same closure that removed follower lists also removed the ability to enumerate the channels an account follows.
There is a setting governing whether your follows are visible, and the sensible move is to check it rather than assume either way, since defaults change and your account may predate the current one.
In practice, for most purposes, the answer is that your follows are not browsable by a stranger. This is a meaningful privacy improvement and it is also the reason some people feel Twitch has become harder to navigate socially — you can no longer see what the people you know are watching.
Why third-party follower tools broke
They were built on an interface that no longer returns the data. Nothing was done to them specifically.
So a site offering to show you any channel's follower list is in one of three states: showing data collected before the change and now progressively wrong, showing fabricated data, or asking you to authenticate in order to show you your own information while implying otherwise.
That third case is worth watching for. A tool that asks you to connect your Twitch account and then shows you your own followers is doing something legitimate and ordinary. A tool that asks you to connect your account in order to show you somebody else's is asking for access under false pretences, because your authorisation does not grant access to another channel's list.
Who unfollowed me
Twitch does not tell you, and it never has directly. The follower count going down is the only native signal, and it does not name anyone.
Tools that provided this worked by recording your follower list repeatedly and comparing the snapshots. That approach still works for your own channel if you authorise a tool against your own account, because the comparison is being made from data you are entitled to.
Whether it is worth it is a different question. A single unfollow is noise, and knowing which specific account it was almost never leads to a useful action. Tracking the shape of the trend against what you streamed is more informative than knowing a name.
Followers, viewers and which one to care about
They measure different things and only one of them is load-bearing on Twitch.
A follower is a permanent record of somebody who once clicked. It never expires and it does not indicate they will show up. Concurrent viewers is a live reading of who is present, and it is what the category directory sorts by.
So a channel can accumulate a substantial follower count and still be invisible in the directory, because the directory is not reading that number. Followers matter for one monetization requirement and for how a visitor judges the channel page; presence is what affects discovery.
This is the most common mismatch of expectations on the platform: people work on the number that is easy to grow and wonder why the thing they wanted did not follow.
What the public total is doing
Since the list is closed and the total is not, the total is the entire public signal a channel carries about its audience.
Someone landing on your channel page reads it before they watch anything, and it is the only thing there that says whether anyone else has been. Nobody can check what it is made of, because that view no longer exists for them.
That is the specific role the number plays now. You can add followers to a Twitch channel to change what a visitor reads on arrival — and it does nothing for concurrent viewers, which is the figure the directory sorts by and the one that brings people to the page in the first place.
Questions people ask about Twitch followers
How do I see who follows me on Twitch?
Creator Dashboard, then the Community section, where the follower list shows names and follow dates. It is most reliably reached through a browser rather than the mobile app.
Can I see who follows someone else's channel?
No. Twitch closed the public interface that exposed follow relationships, so a channel's follower list is available to its owner and to nobody else. The total stays public.
Can people see who I follow on Twitch?
Not through Twitch's public interfaces. There is a setting covering visibility of your follows, and it is worth checking rather than assuming, since defaults change.
Why did my follower tracking site stop working?
It was built on an interface that no longer returns the data. Sites still claiming to show any channel's followers are using stale data, invented data, or your own authorisation while implying otherwise.
How do I see who unfollowed me?
Twitch does not provide this. Tools that offer it work by snapshotting your own follower list over time, which still works if you authorise them against your own account.
Do followers affect where my channel appears?
No. The category directory sorts by concurrent viewers, not followers. Followers matter for a monetization requirement and for how a visitor judges your page.
Keep reading
- add followers to a Twitch channel — With the list closed to everyone, the total is the whole public signal, and you can add followers to a Twitch channel to change what it says.
- why the directory sorts by viewers — Followers are not what brings people to the page, and why the directory sorts by viewers explains what does.
- the Twitch Affiliate requirements — Followers are one of four gates, and the Twitch Affiliate requirements covers the three that read a rolling window.