Tool that recognizes twitter spam accounts

[nbyloff]

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?

[Sean_McDonnell]

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.

[nbyloff]

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.

[CPLDistribution]

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.

http://twitblock.org

[nbyloff]

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.

[CPLDistribution]

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