Introducing Botometer X! The original Botometer website was disabled after Twitter (now X) suspended researcher access to their data. To fulfill the need for bot detection, we revived and rebranded it. Check it out at botometer.osome.iu.edu 1/3

Update: Botometer website has stopped working. Although the app key is still valid, the user timeline endpoint that Botometer relies on seems deprecated, leading to the "not found" error in the figure below. We are really sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Update: BotAmp's free API access has been suspended by Twitter lately. The tool will cease to function indefinitely.

We present how Botometer works, the different ways to access it, an illustrative case study, and most importantly, recommended practice for researchers: what to do and what not to do. Paper available using this link: rdcu.be/cUvyT 3/3 🧵

Social bots have become an important component of social media and an interesting research subject. Researchers must properly handle them when conducting studies using social media data. This paper provides a tutorial of Botometer for practitioners. 2/🧵

Since we observe many misinterpreting the new Botometer scores and especially the CAP (very few people read FAQs and it’s a bit complicated), we will make some changes to the interface to help users interpret the new CAP.

We have set up a public BotSlayer demo for the #debate: http://18.191.194.222/

Due to a recent change in the Twitter API, the Botometer language detection feature was broken for the last 7 days. Thanks to @DeniseGSwope for flagging the problem and to the Botometer Team at the Observatory on Social Media (@truthyatindiana) for quickly fixing it.