"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 ...

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 ...

Twitch streamer and Super Mario 64 speedrunner Squeex has been on the rise as of late. Over the past few months, he has nearly doubled his follower count on Twitch, with over 21,000 followers in total ...

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 is in the middle of what looks like a battle against fake viewers, and it’s already hitting some streamers hard. Late in August, the platform began a crackdown on viewbots, with some creators ...

The defendants offer to add hundreds of viewers to your Twitch streams for a monthly fee. I’m a managing editor at PCMag.com focused on PC hardware. Reading this during the day? Then you've caught me ...