Twitch granted free bits to the accounts, but this does not apply to everyone, but only to people who used the removed function.
Twitch has recently taken care of cleaning up its functions that virtually no one used. The replay system will disappear completely, the friend system has just been removed and the same fate befell the automatic bit balance replenishment.
This has been working since 2019, and Twitch just figured it wasn’t very useful anymore. The whole function was straightforward, as you approached the low bit level, these were automatically purchased by the system.
Free 500 bits for removing this feature
Everyone who used it just got 500 free bits to their accounts. It’s not much, and it’s more like a thank you for using it.
It’s hard to say how many people had it turned on, but there are viewers like that for sure. Now they will have to renew the bits manually. It is possible that it is related to the changing law, or maybe it was simply not profitable to maintain this system.