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 ...

Surely we have all at least heard of Twitch by now. For the as-yet uninitiated: imagine you had your own TV channel. What would you do on it? Although Twitch really got going as a place for gamers to ...

Two of the most popular streamers on Twitch were outrun in subscribers for the month of April - by a bot channel. Michael 'Shroud' Grzesiek and Turner 'Tfue' Tenney, known for their battle royale ...

Amid a rise in harassment campaigns carried out by automated bots, companies like Twitch are resorting to a more targeted approach—less “ban hammer,” and more like a bunch of little ban daggers.

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. Almost ...

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Despite a Fortnite streamer gaining tens of thousands of subscribers in less than two weeks, and other streamers seeing surprising jumps in subscriber numbers as well, Twitch has informed IGN there ...