As Twitch promises to fight viewbotting, CEO claims it’s hard to catch bots – WIN.GG

Amazon-backed streaming platform Twitch is making changes to the platform to improve its ability to catch viewbots and take action against channels that are involved in viewbotting. Viewbotting is a significant problem on Twitch, with many streamers big and small being accused of artificially increasing their numbers. Twitch takes action against streamers using viewbots, but it’s been heavily criticized for not doing enough to curb what is seen as a growing problem. On July 28, the Twitch Support X account tweeted that changes for being made to the platform that would improve detecting viewbots, while Twitch CEO Dan Clancy tweeted an explanation of why the viewbot problem still exists and what the platform is doing to combat it. What is Twitch doing to fight viewbotting? Twitch says it is making changes to its code to better detect viewbotting and eliminate viewbots them that so streamers can’t artificially inflate their viewership numbers. The tweet stated that the platform has tech teams working on ensuring that the viewers on its channels are real users and not fake bots. Twitch also says that it updates its detection tools and methods regularly to ensure these bots don’t find ways past its preventative resources. The
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