Popular streamer Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel recently lost two million followers, but thankfully for him, most of these accounts were bots that were artificially boosting his numbers and messing with his ...
Twitch star ExtraEmily says she’s taking a break after being accused of using viewbots to inflate her viewers during streams.
Twitch has recently been bombarded with millions of bot accounts, making live streams difficult, as there is no clear way for players to know who is a legitimate viewer and what the motives are of ...
Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Bots are a known issue for Twitch, Amazon's video game streaming platform. Improved ...
"We at Twitch are well aware that view-bots, follow-bots, and chat-impersonation bots are a persistent frustration," the company's marketing VP Matthew DiPietro wrote in a blog post The defendants ...
In a blogpost at Twitch, senior vice president of marketing Matthew DiPietro highlighted the company's efforts to get rid of all manner of bots that are being exploited by a "small minority" and have ...