Twitch Has New Penalties For Streamers Caught Viewbotting, CEO Says
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Twitch is putting streamers on notice about viewbotting. The company is taking new steps to crack down on people caught artificially inflating their viewership stats, according to an update from CEO Dan Clancy.
"Today, we're introducing a new enforcement type that we plan to roll out over the next few weeks," Clancy shared in a post on X. "For channels identified as persistently viewbotting, we will apply a cap to the streamer's CCV [concurrent views] for a fixed period of time, on all of the Twitch surfaces." Clancy added that the cap would be based on "historical data regarding that creator's non-viewbotted traffic" and that the limits will increase in duration with repeated violations.
A note on our work to combat viewbotting, from CEO Dan Clancy:
There's been a lot of discussion recently about viewbotting on Twitch, and I wanted to share an update on our enforcement...
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