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

Twitch has just about had it with bots that artificially inflate view counts for videos. In fact, it’s taking the makers of such bots to court. In a post published to the Twitch Blog on Friday, ...

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

"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 has a massive audience of 140 million active users per month, but not all the statistics seen on the platform are genuine. View botting, the act of artificially inflating viewing numbers on a ...

Users of social media sites bulk-buying fake and bot followers to make themselves appear more popular is nothing new. The practice is a common one on the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Bots are a known issue for Twitch, Amazon's video game streaming platform. Improved ...