Chrome extension preview Should be available in a week or two Sits below the video player once enabled It takes a few minutes to complete the initial data collection on large channels Also includes a fully searchable viewerlist

Kaysan A baseline of approx 2000 bots created on 18th/19th March 2023

Twitch: The bot problem is under control N3on with 26,000 viewbots: Bet

Dinah 1750 bots present but many are not active We have seen this across other channels lately Actual viewer count just over 400 at last point shown Gradual bot injection mimics real viewer growth

Emiru Approx 8000 chat connected bots detected Our browser extension matches data collected for this channel last month The official authenticated users (gray line) does not change as viewer count rises, indicating view only bots may also be present

Lacy Twitch mitigations appear to be working on some channels, with many chat-connected bots failing to register as viewers In this snapshot there are 14000 authenticated bots yet only 3-4000 are functioning These could be view only bots if every chat-connected bot is blocked

plaqueboymax Authenticated bots: 7,700 Authenticated non-bots: 9,000 Viewers: 23,000 Adjusted user ratio: 39%

DDG Almost 3000 bots detected from the March 18/19 batch We will report on other nominations as time allows

Marlon 2400 bots detected from April 19 batch

Tumblurr 8700 bots detected from April 19 batch

Fanum Peak of 5200 bots detected from various batches, March 19 being the largest

It appears there is NO recent change to Twitch's counting of lurkers We studied the historical data for many legitimate streamers and the authenticated user ratios (matching categories and ignoring raids) have remained the same for the past two years

schrodingerLee 800 view-only bots confirmed from multiple streams (TwitchTracker shows an 800 drop at times) We don't usually report on these, but they are the more common type Some of those we have investigated with chat-connected bots have additional view-only bots

Silvervale 1200 chat connected bots detected Actual viewer count peaks at 1700 500 view-only bots entered at the start of stream and left after one hour. The same number were seen entering Shylilys stream two hours later

LydiaViolet This stream uses a significant number of view-only bots You can quite clearly see non-authenticated viewers entering at rate far outpacing authenticated 1750 chat-connected bots, we estimate 5000 total view-bots v0.9.8 shown here is now available on GitHub

N3on 15000 chat-connected bots Approx 7000 unstable view-only bots suspected Only 5000 real users connected to chat There was a large batch of bots created last month A quick fix (v0.9.81) of the extension is available on GitHub to capture these

Emiru Peak of 16400 chat-connected bots detected in todays collab stream