Botometer¶
Botometer (originally called BotOrNot) is a public service and API for classifying Twitter accounts as human-controlled or automated. Maintained by Indiana University's Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research.
Key publications¶
- Davis et al. (2016) — BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots — Describes the original BotOrNot service; 1,000+ features, Random Forest classifier, 0.95 AUC.
- Varol et al. (2017) — Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization — Extended framework with enhanced features and population estimation capabilities.
Related¶
- Social Bot Detection — Broader topic on bot detection methods and systems