diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 2a023c7..192d717 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ def main():
 def read_streamer_logins():
     user_input = []
     if len(sys.argv) <= 1:  # no command-line args (the first is always source file name)
-        twitch_streamers = input("Enter the streamer name (or several separated by commas): ")
+        print("Enter the streamer name (or several separated by commas). More important streamers go first.")
+        twitch_streamers = input("Streamer names: ")
         user_input = twitch_streamers.split(",")
     else:
         for i in range(1, len(sys.argv)):
diff --git a/twitch_data.py b/twitch_data.py
index 00a7e74..2792bdc 100644
--- a/twitch_data.py
+++ b/twitch_data.py
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ from exceptions import StreamerIsOfflineException, StreamerDoesNotExistException
 TWITCH_CLIENT_ID = "kimne78kx3ncx6brgo4mv6wki5h1ko"
 USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36"
 
-streamer_logins = []
-_is_online = {}  # streamer login -> are they online
-last_offline_time = {}  # the time when a streamer went offline
+streamer_logins = []  # the list is sorted by priorities: more important streamers go first
+online_streamers = []  # ditto
+last_offline_time = {}  # the time when each streamer went offline (if they did)
 
 
 # specify the streamers we'll be watching
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ def set_streamer_logins(streamer_logins_):
     global streamer_logins
     streamer_logins = streamer_logins_
     for streamer_login in streamer_logins:
-        _is_online[streamer_login] = False
         check_online(streamer_login, print_offline_message=True)
 
 
@@ -39,28 +38,30 @@ def check_online(streamer_login, print_offline_message=False):
         return
 
     if not is_online(streamer_login):
-        _is_online[streamer_login] = True
+        # maintain the priorities of streamers
+        online_streamers.append(streamer_login)
+        online_streamers.sort(key=lambda streamer: streamer_logins.index(streamer))
+
         try:
             from watch_minute import update_minute_watched_event_request  # circular dependencies
             update_minute_watched_event_request(streamer_login)
         except StreamerIsOfflineException:
-            if print_offline_message:
-                set_offline(streamer_login)
-            else:
-                _is_online[streamer_login] = False
+            set_offline(streamer_login, print_offline_message)
         else:
             print(f"{streamer_login} is live!")
 
 
-def set_offline(streamer_login):
+def set_offline(streamer_login, print_offline_message=True):
     if is_online(streamer_login):
-        _is_online[streamer_login] = False
+        online_streamers.remove(streamer_login)
         last_offline_time[streamer_login] = time.time()
-        print(f"{streamer_login} is offline currently.")
+
+        if print_offline_message:
+            print(f"{streamer_login} is offline currently.")
 
 
 def is_online(streamer_login):
-    return _is_online[streamer_login]
+    return streamer_login in online_streamers
 
 
 def get_user_id():
diff --git a/watch_minute.py b/watch_minute.py
index 5a5c182..a322735 100644
--- a/watch_minute.py
+++ b/watch_minute.py
@@ -24,11 +24,13 @@ minute_watched_requests = {}
 
 def send_minute_watched_events():
     headers = {"user-agent": USER_AGENT}
-    streamers = get_streamer_logins()
     minutes_passed = 0
     while True:
-        for streamer_login in streamers:
-            next_iteration = time.time() + 60 / len(streamers)
+        # Twitch has a limit - you can't watch more than 2 channels at one time.
+        # We take the first two streamers from the list as they have the highest priority.
+        streamers_watching = online_streamers[:2]
+        for streamer_login in streamers_watching:
+            next_iteration = time.time() + 60 / len(streamers_watching)
             if is_online(streamer_login):
                 request_info = minute_watched_requests[streamer_login]
                 try: