Twitch Phone Verification Added to Help Prevent Harassment, How? | Tech Times

Urian B., Tech Times 29 September 2021, 09:09 pm (Photo : Image from Unsplash Website) Twitch Phone Verification Added to Help Prevent Harassment, How? Twitch is adding a phone verification to help prevent harassment within the platform. How does this work, and is this effective? Twitch Moves to Stop Trolling According to the story by CNet, Twitch streamers who were reportedly being regularly harassed in their chats actually held a protest on September 1, 2021. They reportedly started calling for the Amazon-owned streaming platform to start implementing more tools in order to stop trolling. The company has decided to act on this, and in a recent official blog post, Twitch announced that it is now adding verifications to chats that could potentially help stop harassers. Phone and email verification for Twitch chatters are currently available for streamers as well as their moderators. Users With Multiple Accounts to be Suspended Users who already have multiple accounts tied to just one phone number will reportedly have all of their accounts suspended if just a single one of them is suspended as well. This is a move made by Twitch to help avoid ban evasions. For those that aren’t yet streaming on this…
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