Viewbotting has long been a hot topic in the streaming community. It typically started off with trolls hitting streamers with ...

Twitch streamer TheBurntPeanut is facing accusations of viewbotting following a rapid surge in viewership, with some streams ...

Twitch has discovered over 7.5 million bot accounts that have been inflating streamer stats, the Amazon-owned company tweeted. It has now started removing those accounts and warned users that "you may ...

Twitch has delivered a widespread ban of 7.5 million bot accounts that have been contributing to "the rise of fake engagement" on the platform, the company said. A majority of these fakes accounts ...

Many streamers on Twitch.tv are in a constant fight to acquire more viewers, followers, and subscriptions. As viewer engagement numbers increase, the potential payouts for serving ads and other ...

"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 ...

Users of social media sites bulk-buying fake and bot followers to make themselves appear more popular is nothing new. The practice is a common one on the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and ...