The streaming site wants to take them to a jury trial.
Twitch is taking a legal stand against one of its biggest scourges: botters, or websites that profit from artificially inflating viewership on the popular streaming platform.
The company is suing seven of “the most active sellers of viewbot services,” it announced. Twitch already has “a range of technological solutions” for detecting false viewers and removing them, and the moderation, support, and partnerships teams investigate reports of botting regularly, according to its announcement.
“We are taking the next step towards protecting Twitch viewers and broadcasters from the damaging effects of this kind of malicious activity,” Twitch’s senior vice president of marketing, Matthew DiPietro, said in the announcement. Continue reading Twitch is suing seven botting sites→
Cheaters are using GPS software to trick the game and then broadcast their exploits for the world to see.
No matter how hard ambitious Pokémon trainers try, they’re never going to be as successful as Lord_Cloudy. The sandy-haired streamer broadcasts from a dark room, fidgeting in his chair and vaping as he plays Pokémon Go, the game that’s supposed to require players to walk around the real world. But Lord_Cloudy achieves the physically impossible. His avatar marches right through buildings and across busy thoroughfares. Continue reading Twitch is swarming with Pokémon Go cheaters, but isn’t banning them—yet→
As the Twitch community grows and evolves, it’s important to take a look at what’s been working and what could use some extra TLC. So, to help paint a clearer picture of the state of Twitch, we recently launched the Twitch Research Power Group, or Twitch RPG for short. It’s a place for the community to tell us how and why they use Twitch and provide detailed feedback. Want to know more about how it works and how you could get involved? This blog post holds the answers you seek.
What is Twitch RPG?
Twitch RPG is a way for you, the Twitch viewer, to help us better understand your perspective and make Twitch even better. Why? While we know things like how much you watch Twitch (a lot), we don’t know much about you and your likes. Continue reading An introduction to Twitch Research Power Group (RPG)→
It’s the day before a holiday weekend, which means a lot of people are on vacation and not a lot of people are in the Verge offices right now. So, when presented with the prospect of eating lunch alone, I, like any good citizen of the modern world, turned to the internet for comfort and companionship. Specifically, I turned to “Social Eating,” a new Twitch category where people livestream themselves eating or drinking. Continue reading A comforting, mindless time watching people eat food on Twitch→
Do you love Twitch? Want to celebrate video games and broadcasting at the ultimate Twitch convention? You’re in luck, because we’re bringing back last year’s Purple Ticket contest, bigger and better than ever!
Twitch is offering to fly out one special fan (and their friend) to San Diego with an all-access pass (that means VIP party access, meet and greets with top broadcasters, tour of the event with Twitch staff, & more!) for TwitchCon, but we want to learn more about you before we pick somebody. Here’s the challenge:Continue reading Make a video, win an all-access Purple Ticket to TwitchCon!→
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