Twitch has responded to claims that gifted subscriptions are only given to bot accounts after some streamers spotted fresh ...

Twitch streamer Felix “xQc” recently brought attention to alleged view-botting practices involving talent agencies and ...

Twitch viewership has fallen dramatically since the site began cracking down harder on viewbots, with many top streamers ...

One defendant, Erik Bouchouev, operates five separate websites, offering bot packages that range from $9.99 per month for 75 viewers to $38.99 per month for 475 viewers, according to the complaint.

Twitch recently rolled out updates targeting viewbotting fake viewership created by scripts to inflate stats. One of the ...

The programmer of a bot that artificially inflates Twitch viewer counts has had his business shut down by a California judge.

By embedding their Twitch streams on third-party websites, some Twitch stars are allegedly padding streams with fake viewers, bolstering their rankings and clout.

Viewership on Twitch is declining as the platform targets streamers using bots, but the platform disputes a 'free fall' in ...

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 ...

The lawsuit is part of an effort by the livestreaming site to prevent video creators from gaming the system and artificially inflating their view counts.

Twitch is purging 7.5 million bots that inflated view and follower counts The news comes after users saw steep drops in their follow counts.

Twitch's latest crackdown on bots—fake accounts that artificially inflate viewer counts and followers—has led to some of the platform's biggest streamers losing millions of followers.