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Twitch has recorded its lowest monthly viewership in five years following a crackdown on viewbots over the summer.
"Our viewership is not in free fall, especially among the millions of community channels that are core to Twitch viewership," ...
Twitch viewership has fallen dramatically since the site began cracking down harder on viewbots, with many top streamers ...
Twitch streamer Felix “xQc” recently brought attention to alleged view-botting practices involving talent agencies and ...
Twitch recently rolled out updates targeting viewbotting fake viewership created by scripts to inflate stats. One of the ...
In an attempt to put an end to the 'constant battle' against viewbotting, Twitch recently announced that it would update its code to detect bloated viewer count ...
Twitch has filed a lawsuit against seven makers of "view-bots, follow-bots, and chat-impersonation bots" designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts of Twitch streamers. Bots ...
The lawsuit is part of an effort by the livestreaming site to prevent video creators from gaming the system and artificially inflating their view counts.
Back in June 2016, Twitch filed a legal complaint against seven makers of ‘view bots’, software used to inflate the apparent view count, follower count, and chat activity on a Twitch channel ...
Twitch is introducing a new tool that the company believes will mitigate bot attacks wreaking havoc in chatrooms on the video game streaming site.
Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Twitch discovered 7.5 million bots that were follow-botting or view-botting, the ...