{"id":4125,"date":"2021-04-15T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=4125"},"modified":"2021-04-19T22:32:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T02:32:45","slug":"7-5-million-bots-inflate-twitch-viewer-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/7-5-million-bots-inflate-twitch-viewer-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"7.5 Million Bots Inflate Twitch Viewer Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s video game streaming platform Twitch has discovered 7.5 million bots that were &#8220;follow-botting&#8221; or &#8220;view-botting.&#8221; The streaming platform&#8217;s improved machine learning found millions of these accounts and they are now being covered, which could affect the statistics of some streamers. While &#8220;follow-bots&#8221; are used to improve a streamer&#8217;s follow-up numbers, viewer bots inflate the current number of viewers who see a stream, which can help increase a channel&#8217;s chances of discovery on the platform. Twitch said it would enforce its terms of service for those bot accounts, including possible legal action that could reduce a channel&#8217;s follower and viewer numbers in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the original story on CNET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s video game streaming platform Twitch has discovered 7.5 million bots that were &#8220;follow-botting&#8221; or &#8220;view-botting.&#8221; The streaming platform&#8217;s improved machine learning found millions of these accounts and they are now being covered, which could affect the statistics of some streamers. While &#8220;follow-bots&#8221; are used to improve a streamer&#8217;s follow-up numbers, viewer bots inflate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-twitch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4131,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions\/4131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}