If allowed to chatter and meme unchecked, Twitch chat can grow into an unstoppable avalanche of ugly behavior. Many streamers rely on at least a handful of volunteer or paid moderators, as well as ...

Amid a rise in harassment campaigns carried out by automated bots, companies like Twitch are resorting to a more targeted approach—less “ban hammer,” and more like a bunch of little ban daggers.

One of the more unacceptable things to occur in regards to livestreaming on Twitch has been the absolute flood of racist and homophobic bot programs that have plagued the platform. Twitch’s early ...

Have you ever wished for an automaton that can get the party started, raise the roof, and all that? You’ll want to meet [DJ Pfeif]’s Flippin Rhobot, then. He’s a hype bot from the world of Twitch ...

Surely we have all at least heard of Twitch by now. For the as-yet uninitiated: imagine you had your own TV channel. What would you do on it? Although Twitch really got going as a place for gamers to ...

In the past few days, Twitch streamers have noticed an incredible influx of subscribers, which should be good for the platform and the content creators. However, something fishy seems to be afoot and ...

After years of ignoring the problem, Twitch has finally launched a full-scale war on view bots—and the results are shocking. Streamers across the platform saw their viewer counts cut in half or more ...

Twitch's "Hate Raids" plan for 2022 has been laid out in an open letter, which shares the moves that the streaming platform is doing to combat the "unacceptable" trends of 2021 altogether. This ...