On the morning of Friday, February 24th, a post on HackForum appeared, offering a new way to make life difficult for Twitch streamers. “ChatSurge is an extremely simple service to flood, destroy just ...

If allowed to chatter and meme unchecked, Twitch chat can grow into an unstoppable avalanche of ugly behavior. Many streamers rely on at least a handful of volunteer or paid moderators, as well as ...

Twitch is taking legal action against a Canadian man responsible for "flooding" hundreds of its user channels with spam messages. Brandan Lukus Apple, who lives in British Columbia, faces a charge of ...

Amid a rise in harassment campaigns carried out by automated bots, companies like Twitch are resorting to a more targeted approach—less “ban hammer,” and more like a bunch of little ban daggers.