Twitch bots are still making tiny channels the most-followed streamers Twitch: Kaisa\/TwitchTwitch follower botters have been up to their old tricks, turning some of the smallest streamers on the platform into the most-followed channels of the last few weeks. Building up a steady following is a challenge for pretty much every Twitch streamer. Some can get a helping hand if they\u2019ve got a following elsewhere, or get a boost. There are plenty of overnight successes on Twitch \u2013 be it because a bigger streamer shouted them out, they were featured on the homepage, or they\u2019ve got an incredible niche that works well. However, botting is becoming more and more of a major issue. For whatever reason, be it to get someone in trouble or to just troll, a number of Twitch users can see their follower numbers spike into the millions, even if they\u2019re just streaming to 10 or 20 viewers. In the past, these bot numbers have propelled some channels into Twitch\u2019s top 20 most-followed channels of all-time, leaving everyone confused. However, while channels aren\u2019t getting hit with five or seven million botted followers anymore, it\u2019s still happening. So much so that in the last few weeks, quite a few small channels have become some of the fast-growing channels on Twitch. That includes channels like Ezzi, Vision2KZN, and Kaisa who have streamed to an average of 40, 6, and 83 viewers respectively. But, they\u2019ve \u2018gained\u2019 around 3 million followers each in the past 30 days. Even G2\u2019s HeelMike, who has been botted before, has suffered another artificial boost in followers \u2013 being given close to 2.3 million botted followers. HeelMike has had fun with the botting before, as has LosPollosTV \u2013 who was botted with almost 2.4 million additional followers in the last month. With the exception of nmplol, nine of the top ten \u201cfastest-growing channels\u201d on Twitch are because of follow bots. Twitch has, and will, remove the botted followers at times, but it\u2019s still a pretty major issue. It takes one wrong step and someone can be banned for something that\u2019s out of their hands. it also ruins the ability to keep on track of which streamers are actually growing naturally, which is often a way for viewers to find new streamers to watch. These bot follower attacks could be making it harder for streamers to grow as they deserve to. Whether or not the streaming platform clamps down on it moving forward is unknown, but it was a persistent problem throughout 2020, and is showing no signs of stopping in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch bots are still making tiny channels the most-followed streamers Twitch: Kaisa\/TwitchTwitch follower botters have been up to their old tricks, turning some of the smallest streamers on the platform into the most-followed channels of the last few weeks. Building up a steady following is a challenge for pretty much every Twitch streamer. Some can […]<\/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-62246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62246","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=62246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}