Checking Twitch Bots: 6 Warning Signs
No donations . If there are at least 50-100 people on the broadcast at the same time and there has not been a single donation during the entire time, this is suspicious. Of course, if you did not forget about setting up a donation and left a link to it in the description.
Sharp jumps in activity . There were five viewers - there were 156 in literally a minute. One stream collected 40,000 views, another - only three. All this indicates an artificial change in the indicators.
Low activity. With a large number of subscribers, streams cannot get two or three views, unless the audience is inflated.
Few messages . If during an online stream almost no one writes in the broadcast chat, but there are one or two thousand viewers, this is at least suspicious. At most, it indicates cheating.
Meaningless messages . Some bots can send pre-prepared text to the chat. If you see a large number of messages that do not correspond to the current situation, it may be a case of cheating.
Few logged in viewers . In most cases, the streamer's bitcoin data viewers are registered on Twitch: they make up at least 60-90% of the total audience on the broadcast. If there are fewer, it is already suspicious - usually bots are hiding under the guise of unregistered visitors.
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How to check a Twitch channel for cheating
Regardless of whose channel you want to check - yours or the streamer you plan to place an ad on - there are only two ways. This is observation and using services to check for cheating.
Streamer monitoring
Useful for those who want to gather information about the blogger and their content before placing an ad on their channel. You can identify cheating if you carefully watch the streamer's broadcasts. If there are alarming signs:
few messages;
meaningless messages;
lack of donations;
activity surges;
low activity;
few logged in viewers,
You shouldn't buy advertising - most likely the blogger is using cheating.
You can determine the number of logged in viewers using the code. Use the link tmi.twitch.tv/group/user/«nick»/chatters , where nick is the streamer's name in the search bar.