Building a Twitch.tv Chat Bot with Go - Part 1 

To facilitate the streamer and chat interaction, Twitch uses a variant of IRC, and provides documentation for their implementation on their Twitch Developers page. This allows developers to create chat bots that can moderate chat rooms, interact with chatters, and automate certain tasks for streamers. There are several well known ones, with many features, but the chat bot built in this walkthrough won't be as complex.

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