Tool that recognizes twitter spam accounts
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I seem to remember seeing an online app mentioned here that allows you to enter a twitter username, and it reports back metrics on the likelihood of each follower being a real person or not. Does anyone have the link, or did I imagine it?
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They may look at the following (just a guess):
- follower to followed ratio
- number of people followed against length of time account has been running
- number of updates in relation to followed/follower numbers
- whether they have a naughty profile picture
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Yeah, that looks like the one I saw. It would be nice to know their methodology. I could whip up a python script fairly quickly for public use to try against accounts you don't control.
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This tool scans your twitter followers and returns a list of possible spammers. I have just given it a quick test and it was very accurate, however, I only have a measly 17 followers as am not active on Twitter. Be interesting to see how it performs onb a larger sample.
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It was an overview, percentage of followers that were likely to be spammers. Based on who they followed, how much they wrote, etc. Maybe I did imagine it. ha.
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I've never hear of such a app. And if there is one I'm not sure how accurate it would be. I know there are many people out there using fake accounts that look really legit.
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