So according to the website Cinema Blend, Microsoft have been gaming the numbers in an online twitter poll in order to make the Xbox One seem more popular that it actual is in America. You can read the article right here.
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Xbox-One-Caught-Cheating-Twitter-Poll-Gains-60-Votes-With-Bots-58927.html
You can see in that article there is a bunch of dummy accounts spamming votes for the Xbox One to make it look more popular than it really is. Now it's not really a big deal, it's just a an online poll, but that's exactly the point. Instead of focusing on fixing the massive fuckup that is the Xbox One, they are spending resources on having people set up a bunch of bots to spam hash tags on twitter. If they spent more time on actually making a good system and less time trying to damage control their shitty piece of hardware then the votes would come naturally anyway.
Xbox isn't the only one potentially doing shit like this though. There is a number of rumours flying around the internet that Riot Games are padding out their Twitch TV viewer numbers with bots sitting around various channels just so that the numbers look higher than that of their competitors.
Rather than trying to cheat people and game numbers, why not just make a quality product that people would enjoy? Hell, in the case of Riot games they don't NEED to game numbers on twitch because there are already shit tons of people who love the game, who cares if there are more people viewing on twitch compared to DotA or whatever?
Just stop it! Twitch viewer counts don't matter! Twitch polls don't matter! Stop it and focus on making things good!
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