New anti-bot penalty: Twitch will cap concurrent viewers for channels caught repeatedly using viewbots, basing limits on past authentic traffic. Why it matters: Viewbotting distorts competition, ...

Viewbotting and its effects For years, viewbotting has been one of the biggest Problems on Twitch. Streamers use artificial viewers to push their "Concurrent Viewers" (CCV), one of the platform's most ...

Twitch is rolling out a new enforcement mechanism designed to penalize streamers who persistently inflate their concurrent ...

I’m going to start and end this with a call for us all to just be nice. There’s enough nonsense going on in the world without piling on to people we don’t know, about things that ultimately mean ...

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If you want to grow on Twitch, the hardest part is often the start. A low viewer count can make even a good stream feel invisible. That is why many streamers look for the best site to purchase Twitch ...

Cloudflare and GoDaddy are addressing AI's impact on web traffic and revenue. The firms implemented an AI Crawl Control to manage AI bot interactions on websites. The partnership aims to create a ...

GTA Online Twitch Drops are back for the next two weeks. Rockstar Support shared the news on Twitter: From April 2 to April 15, players who watch participating streamers will receive Twitch Drop ...

A new report found that bots have surpassed human internet traffic. HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that automated traffic grew eight times faster than human traffic year-over-year.

Reddit will verify if some users are human, but won't cross reference their ID with their Reddit account. Credit: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images Reddit CEO Steve Huffman caused a stir when ...

There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to ...

Bots are taking over the web, according to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince. In an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin this week, he said that with the speed at which artificial intelligence is ...