A viewbotting service is boasting it can get streamers into Twitch’s Partner Program in three months, adding fuel to growing ...

Twitch shares that viewbots often use “illegitimate scripts or tools” to increase the concurrent live views of a channel. The platform notes that often, the practice of viewbotting takes place ...

It was a spam service, offering to flood a given Twitch feed with the same (usually offensive) message over and over. On a platform where game-streamers succeed or fail by engaging with live ...

Twitch had actually discovered around 7.5 million bots that were all follow-botting or even view-botting. This was according to the company's official Tweet detailing the bot phenomenon.

Twitch has started legal action against seven sellers of "view-bot" services, which are employed to artificially increase important metrics like view counts, follower counts and general chat activity.

Twitch Plays Pokemon burst onto the then nascent livestreaming scene back in 2014, letting Twitch viewers take command of a Game Boy emulator running Pokemon Red via simple chat commands. Since ...

If allowed to chatter and meme unchecked, Twitch chat can grow into an unstoppable avalanche of ugly behavior. Many streamers rely on at least a handful of volunteer or paid moderators, as well as ...