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It seems that the people who are most likely to tell human from bot are the ones who would use Chrome extensions. I am glad people are working on solutions, but
by samsolomon 9y ago
It seems that the people who are most likely to tell human from bot are the ones who would use Chrome extensions. I am glad people are working on solutions, but I'd love to see an approach that works for all users.
For example there could be a Twitter account that replies to every bot tweet and those included in the bot's tweets. Accounts that have a high likelihood of being a bot would get a reply stating that the account is likely a bot.
I'm just spitballing—certainly, this would push up on Twitter's API limitations. But it seems like there a much better way to identify fake accounts than through a Chrome extension.
- theashbhat 9y agoOne of the creators here: Yup! Our current users are more engaged and active on Twitter than the average users. The chrome extension and website release also helps improve our model significantly. We get feedback on how it works in the wild and false positives that we can use to improve our model on.