Twitch wants to combat fake views on its platform

As a live streaming platform, Twitch‘s way of measuring a channel’s success is in the number of views. And to make this information even more correct, the platform wants to combat false views.

The practice of gaining what we can call false views, despite being frowned upon by streamers, is not something secret. On the contrary, it is quite well known and is very simple: just embed the channel’s videos on game Wiki pages.

In other words, anyone looking for information or even a game guide will end up coming across a video from a Twitch streamer, thus granting another view to the channel, even if unintentionally.

Twitch wants help from streamers

To combat this practice of gaining false views, Twitch wants help from streamers. And the person who reported this was Gothalion, who revealed that he had received an email from the CEO of Amazon’s live streaming platform, Dan Clancy.

Gothalion is one of the names that most fights against the practice of false views on Twitch and has been very active in exposing those who use this tactic on their channels.

The streamer read part of the email he received from Dan Clancy during a live stream on Twitch and also pointed out one of the names that most take advantage of this practice: FextraLife.

FextraLife has already been identified by other streamers, such as Ludwig and Asmongold, as a large user of the practice of embedding videos on Wiki pages and, in doing so, gaining extra views on their videos.

Ludwig even mentioned that, although a FextraLife video has around 60 thousand viewers, the chat has far fewer active people, often reaching less than half that number.

Twitch has not yet officially commented on the possibility of combating this practice of gaining false views, but if what Gothalion reported is true, there is something being planned by the platform in relation to this and some streamers will likely suffer retaliation.