Twitch respond to concerns as millions of new bot accounts created TwitchTwitch have responded to concerns about bots after an \u201ceasy\u201d way to create new, fake accounts after a massive spike revealed millions of new profiles. Some Twitch streamers spend years grinding away trying to build a community of followers that will tune into their streams on a regular basis. Though, not every follower is a real person. Over the last few years, the Amazon-owned streaming platform has run into regular issues with bot accounts \u2013 fake profiles designed to boost somebodies follower numbers \u2013 with some trolls using them to try and get a streamer banned. These fake profiles have been sent to a wide range of streamers, both big and small, prompting a massive shake-up in the most-followed channel rankings at times. And things could get even worse thanks to a new method that trolls now have at their disposal. Twitch streamers concerned amid surge in bot accounts On September 25, Twitch partner CommanderRoot noted that over 4 million new accounts had been created in 24 hours, as someone had seemingly uncovered an \u201ceasy\u201d way to amass bot profiles. This, naturally, concerned plenty of streamers who called upon Twitch to do something about it. While action hasn\u2019t yet happened, one Twitch dev \u2013 RayApollo \u2013 confirmed that the problem is on their radar. \u201cHey! Heads up, Teams are aware and working on this!\u201d he replied, shortly after the initial post picked up some traction between streamers. As we\u2019ve seen previously, battling against these bot accounts can be tricky for Twitch. While they are easy to identify \u2013 as the names usually have a string of numbers in there \u2013 some streamers haven\u2019t been able to shake them off. Streamers are hoping for a quick resolution to the matter, but it\u2019ll be a case of wait and see as to what Twitch can do about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch respond to concerns as millions of new bot accounts created TwitchTwitch have responded to concerns about bots after an \u201ceasy\u201d way to create new, fake accounts after a massive spike revealed millions of new profiles. Some Twitch streamers spend years grinding away trying to build a community of followers that will tune into their […]<\/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-62404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404","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=62404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}