Introducing BotSight: A New Tool to Detect Bots on Twitter in Real-Time>
Norton Lifelock Blog – Daniel Kats
BotSight works across the majority of Twitter including search, trending topics, and your home timeline. For the past six months, our team has been diligently scrolling through Twitter with BotSight enabled in order to continuously test and improve both our model and our design. It has also enabled us to better understand bots, contextualizing where they are likely to appear and how they act. To determine whether an account is a bot, we look at over 20 different distinguishing features per case, including the amount of randomness in the Twitter handle, whether the account is verified, the rate at which it is acquiring followers, and the accountâs description. We verified our approach by observing BotSight in action. So far, BotSightâs beta users have successfully analyzed over 100,000 Twitter accounts.
Link: https://www.nortonlifelock.com/blogs/research-group/botsight-tool-detect-twitter-bots