A Twitch manager suggests that viewbotting may be the key to some streamers' success despite being a controversial tool for fake engagement.

Kick streamer Tyler "Trainwreckstv" recently responded to remarks that were made by Blaire "QTCinderella" during the latest rendition of the Streamer Awards held on December 7, 2024. While taking the ...

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 ...

Twitch streamer Felix "xQc" has alleged that organizations often viewbot their talents so that, by artificially inflating the streamers' metrics, they can sell "massive" advertisement packages and ...

"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 ...

Twitch streamer Quin69 has reignited concerns about view-botting on the platform after noticing gifted subscriptions being allocated to bot accounts. This issue, highlighted in a recent stream, raises ...