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Twitch denies viewership “free fall” and rumors of viewbot update rollback
Twitch spoke with Dexerto about its crackdown on viewbotting and hit back at rumors of a viewership “freefall” as a result.
In July 2025, Twitch published a statement confirming that it was rolling out changes that “meaningfully improved our ability to identify viewbots, inauthentic viewership, and other potentially fake engagement.” The site’s CEO, Dan Clancy, followed up with a statement of his own, clarifying the company was taking its time in enforcing these updates as to avoid “inadvertently filtering out real users.” Twitch denied these claims, assuring Dexerto that it did not backtrack on its actions against viewbots whatsoever and see this as a “long-term” plan to enact change for streamers across its platform.
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