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Twitch’s viewership takes a massive hit after cracking down on viewbots - Dexerto


Twitch viewership has fallen dramatically since the site began cracking down harder on viewbots, with many top streamers affected.

While one dip in viewership can easily be written off, a general and noticeable drop after Twitch’s policy change likely means one thing: their crackdown on viewbots is working. However, with that exposing how many viewers on the platform weren’t real people, a lot of the biggest Twitch streamers have taken a big hit to their viewership. There’s a very clear and rapid downward trend across the board, with literal hundreds of thousands of viewers detracted from Twitch’s overall live viewership pool.

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