The creator of software designed to artificially inflate a streamer's viewer count on Twitch has effectively had his business shuttered by a California judge's ruling. Support streamers the ...

Twitch has just about had it with bots that artificially inflate view counts for videos. In fact, it’s taking the makers of such bots to court. In a post published to the Twitch Blog on Friday, ...

The legal hammer is being dropped on seven of the most prolific bot-makers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Twitch has filed a ...

There’s an open secret among users of Twitch, the Amazon-owned video streaming service used mostly for e-sports streaming: They can embed their streams onto third-party websites to inflate the number ...

Are your views on Twitch down? It might not be your fault — blame the viewbots, or lack thereof. Last month, Twitch said in a post on X that it would crack down on viewbots, which are essentially bots ...

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy admitted it’s “tricky” to deal with viewbots and pointed to some other platforms that are having issues ...

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 ...

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 ...

Viewership on Twitch is declining as the platform targets streamers using bots, but the platform disputes a ‘free fall’ in its numbers. However, over the past few months there’s been reports of a ...