![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Twitch explained that the bots are sometimes used by broadcasters who believe that the perception of higher viewership and social activity will put them on the fast-track to success or to Twitch partnership, which requires streamers to have a consistently high number of viewers and followers. According to court documents filed on 22 January, Twitchbot purveyors Michael and Katherine Anjomi have been ordered to permanently shut down their software and to forfeit the domains they used to market it:, , and .Īccording to the original complaint Twitch filed in June, those domains are where the Anjomis sold, among other things, view bots, follower bots, chat bots, and channel view services. Puffing up the number of people who follow livestreams of Twitch users’ video gameplay was a tactic exploited by a “small minority,” Twitch said at the time, but the bot sellers have created “a very real problem that has damaging effects across our entire community.” In June 2016, popular Amazon-owned, live streaming service Twitch announced that it was filing charges against seven of the most active sellers of viewbots: the bots used to artificially pump up view count, follower count, and chat activity on a Twitch channel. ![]()
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