The Twitch platform has become one of the most popular platforms for streaming as of recent but it seems like not everyone was playing fair. Bots are already a known issue around Twitch, Amazon's popular video game streaming platform. With the use of improved machine learning, there were millions of different accounts found and they are currently being dealt with. This could even affect a number of streamers' stats.
Twitch Bots Viewers
Twitch had actually discovered around 7.5 million bots that were all follow-botting or even view-botting. This was according to the company's official Tweet detailing the bot phenomenon. The unfair phenomenon is now being dealt with. While other honest streamers are gaining viewership and following the proper way, other channels are making use of these bots to provide a quick solution.
Follow-bots are actually used to help improve a streamer's total follow numbers while the viewer-bots are used to inflate the number of viewers all watching a stream. These bots can then be used to help boost a channel's very own discovery chances on the given platform. While this can be used as a boost to startup a channel, it is still not the proper way to gain viewership and following on Twitch as per its regulation.
🛡️ We have been monitoring the rise of fake engagement on Twitch and have identified 7.5MM+ accounts that break our TOS by follow-botting and view-botting. We are taking action on these accounts and appreciate all of the reports about this issue.
— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) April 14, 2021
What Is the Point of Twitch Bots?
According to the story by CNet, Twitch also says that it will enforce its very own terms of service on these particular bot accounts. This includes taking legal action which could then lower a channel's total followers or viewer count especially if they have used these bots. Certain users viewership and following could be deeply affected especially if they rely greatly on bots in order to boost their accounts.
Twitch has announced that they have been monitoring the total risk of these fake engagements on Twitch and have been able to identify that over 7.5 million accounts actually break their official TOS by both follow-botting and view-botting. Twitch is reportedly going to take action directly on these accounts and they expressed their appreciation for all of the people that have reported these particular issues.
Twitch Bots Spam
Machine learning was reportedly used by Twitch in order to help them sniff out the particular bots, Twitch also states that it will improve their operations moving forward. While a number of streamers are still looking to boost their total numbers by maybe purchasing these viewer bots and follower bots, this trend might slowly end.
As of the moment, however, users can boost their views and following by purchasing these bots around the lesser-known places around the internet. There are also a few users who make use of these particular bots in order to troll certain channels. A stream could actually find their chat flooded all with spam coming from the bots and this could lead towards other issues if the channel would then get reported for a TOS violation.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
