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I was surprised by the number of false positives reported here, went ahead and tested on several Twitter accounts of my friends, both professional and personal.
by dexen 9y ago
I was surprised by the number of false positives reported here, went ahead and tested on several Twitter accounts of my friends, both professional and personal. 9 out of 25 tested were classified as 'bot' with probability > 0.6.
Only 11 were classified as 'humans' with probability > 0.7.
And that's on 25 accounts of people I know personally.
Given the preposterous error rate, I deem there is no actual classification logic in R, and instead it uses the (very fallible) humans to do the actual classification via a Mechanical Turk-style API.
Wait, do I need to add "/s" to this post, or is it obvious enough?
- peterhi 9y agoSame here. I am a bot with 84.7% confidence Dread to think how they came up with this
- na85 9y ago83% chance that I'm a bot, apparently. Neat idea though.
- gregdoesit 9y agoIt classifies @jack as a bot. Accuracy is definitely quite low based on a few samples, as noted by others in this thread.
- jjuel 9y agoI was only .111 in probability of a bot. So I was classified as probably not a bot. Of course I am not big on retweets or likes.