Back in 2016, Twitch announced that it was taking legal action against seven of the most active sellers of view bots, software used to make Twitch channels look like they have more viewers, followers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE (CN) – Twitch, Amazon’s live-streaming video game site, sued seven botmakers and their 12 “bot packages,” claiming they distort numbers and deceive Twitch and its ...

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 ...

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Popular streamer Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel recently lost two million followers, but thankfully for him, most of these accounts were bots that were artificially boosting his numbers and messing with his ...