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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Twitch has filed a lawsuit against seven makers of "view-bots, follow-bots, and chat-impersonation bots" designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts of Twitch streamers. Bots are a ...

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 ...

Streamer Asmongold has raised questions about Twitch's moderation. He suggests a secret list might protect some accounts from view-bot detection. This theory has sparked community debate. Many viewers ...

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 ...

Moderating an online community is hard, often thankless work — and it’s even harder when it happens in a silo. On Twitch, interconnected channels already informally share information on users they ...

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