Sodapoppin gains 3M Twitch followers overnight as bots plague platform Sodapoppin\/TwitchA number of large Twitch streamers, including Chance \u2018Sodapoppin\u2019 Morris, have seen their follower numbers double or more than double in just a day due to what seems to be an infestation of bots on the platform. Usually on any social media\/streaming site for that matter, gaining followers is generally considered a good thing, but recently on Twitch, several big streamers have seen their numbers absolutely explode through the use of bots. Now, let\u2019s make it clear before we go on that it\u2019s highly unlikely that any of the affected streamers are to blame, as view or follow botting is a bannable offense on Twitch. Instead, it\u2019s probably a random person or group of people behind the flood of new accounts and follows. Around December 17-18, Soda\u2019s follow count doubled almost instantly, rocketing him up to nearly 7 million overall \u2014 a gain of almost 3.5 million in just one day, numbers that are simply unheard of in any situation. Morris wasn\u2019t the only streamer to be affected though, not by a long shot. According to the third-party stat-tracking site twitchmetrics.net, all kinds of streamers on the platform are seeing insane follower growth over the last few weeks. Just under Soda is Twitch partner Heelmike, who\u2019s gained over 2.5 million followers since this situation began, and Gonedoc clocking in at 2.4 million gained. Next up was U.S. streamer Shofu who amassed 1.2 million, and lolnatie who got 890,000 followers to take her from just 10,000 to 900,000 in a day. Compare this astounding growth to Dexerto\u2019s 2020 streamer of the year winner Nick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff, who\u2019s been steadily amassing followers throughout the month, for a nice solid and legitimate gain of just over 200,000. Just looking at his followers and Soda\u2019s tracked side by side, and it\u2019s not hard to see why bots are most likely to blame. Nick\u2019s graph shows a nice gradual increase, while Chance\u2019s shoots up to more than double in just a day. Now that we\u2019ve established that it\u2019s probably bots responsible for all these new follows, there\u2019s one question that still remains \u2014 why would someone or a group of people go to all the trouble to bump up these unrelated streamer\u2019s numbers? Maybe those responsible are huge fans of each of the streamers and just wanted to give them some extra followers for the holiday. Whatever the reason, this is certainly one of the strangest situations we\u2019ve seen on Twitch all year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sodapoppin gains 3M Twitch followers overnight as bots plague platform Sodapoppin\/TwitchA number of large Twitch streamers, including Chance \u2018Sodapoppin\u2019 Morris, have seen their follower numbers double or more than double in just a day due to what seems to be an infestation of bots on the platform. Usually on any social media\/streaming site for that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}