On the morning of Friday, February 24th, a post on HackForum appeared, offering a new way to make life difficult for Twitch streamers. “ChatSurge is an extremely simple service to flood, destroy just ...

The massive streaming service Twitch allows gamers to connect over practically every game imaginable; however, this connection isn’t as flawless as many may wish. Last year, from February to May, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twitch viewers have a new go-to spam emote in “forsenE.” You might have seen it speeding by in Twitch chat thousands of times, thanks to a tireless campaign to push the face of a popular streamer to ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Back in 2016, Twitch announced that it was taking legal action against seven of the most active sellers of view bots, software used to make Twitch ...

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.