rockerest’s Twitter Archive—№ 18,527

When I hit 1000 followers, I started thinking about them, and I had a theory: I would guess that 50% of my followers are either scammers or outright bots. I'm eventually going to block them all, but I wanted to test my theory first.
On twitter.com 2022 Jan 20 Mood -1 🙁

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So I wrote check.js, which checks a couple of heuristics against all of my followers. Eventually, I'd like to use a real bot-or-not API, but the only one I know of is extremely difficult to use, and has an incredibly low rate limit (botometer.osome.iu.edu).
Permalink On twitter.com 2022 Jan 20 Mood +1 🙂

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Anyway, I don't have any way to find bots right now, but against my other heuristics... Well... I think my theory is probably right.
Permalink On twitter.com 2022 Jan 20 Mood 0

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Eventually, I'll fine-tune this to the point where it catches every crypto/blockchain/NFT scammer following me AND it can detect bots. When I do, I'm going to flip the switch that blocks them all and it's going to be a slightly more beautiful world.
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2022 Jan 20 Mood +2 🙂

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The next thing is like to check is profile pictures. The easiest metric will be Twitter's new NFT pfp thing, which I HOPE will be discoverable (e.g. pfpIsNft). The next most useful is the laser eyes, but that will require some kind of image processing. mobile.twitter.com/rockerest/status/1450852501956317185
Permalink On twitter.com 2022 Jan 20 Mood +8 🙂

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Every time I tweet about how much I despise this world and how I'm going to use some thing to root the scumbags out and block them, some of them like (and sometimes retweet) it. A dumb bot spewing likes is a sure sign that something is legit 🙄🙄
Permalink On twitter.com 2022 Jan 20 Mood 0