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TheBlackAdder

(28,168 posts)
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 12:51 PM Sep 2020

How can you have a new Twitter account with 9 posts and be flagged a 100% Problem by BotSentinel?

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I'm not a twitter person, but when I see certain posts I do a quick BotSentinel scan, just cause.

Mrs. Krassenstein
@HKrassenstein
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Replying to
@realDonaldTrump
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@FoxNews
The stock market is going down because all of these tech companies are way overvalued. It has nothing to do with the polls. They’ve been the same for months. You are getting clobbered.

Mrs. Krassenstein
@HKrassenstein
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If Trump wins, America loses.

J Clint
@JClint9
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I couldn't disagree with you more! I'm glad my vote is there to cancel yours





https://twitter.com/JClint9

https://botsentinel.com/profile/1299471619086258184


There's some mention of syphilis as a keyword, is that a new line of attack or something?

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How can you have a new Twitter account with 9 posts and be flagged a 100% Problem by BotSentinel? (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 OP
I don't totally understand, but I'd like to. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #1
Same Here ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #2
And if I'm reading his account correctly, only two of his posts are NOT Mike 03 Sep 2020 #3
Can only assume their few posts are all adversarial and the filter sees that Takket Sep 2020 #4
Did you check their other posts? Are they all inflammatory? Arazi Sep 2020 #5
I saw he had a Fucker Carlson post in one of them. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #7
Foreign bots have to use a proxy to register with twitter DenverJared Sep 2020 #6
Cool. Thanks. IDK who can report it as I don't tweet. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #8

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
3. And if I'm reading his account correctly, only two of his posts are NOT
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 12:58 PM
Sep 2020

retweets.

Everything else is a retweet.

Maybe you're likely a bot if you have "syphilis" and "dementia" in the same sentence.

His account says he has 1 follower, but when you click on it to see who it is, Twitter tells you he has no followers??

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
5. Did you check their other posts? Are they all inflammatory?
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 01:04 PM
Sep 2020

Are they only responding to big name accounts in a trolling manner? Do they have a profile picture or just the egg? Have they filled anything out on their profile?

It's a lot the same as here. Sometimes there are legit newbies but they need to earn some credibility before they're accepted without skepticism.

Twitter has a lot of problems with mass spamming by troll farms so I've also assumed they've checked ISPN addresses too to see if the tweeter is legit

 

DenverJared

(457 posts)
6. Foreign bots have to use a proxy to register with twitter
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 01:28 PM
Sep 2020

and usually register without a phone number.

Twitter can check if web registrations are done via a proxy very easily and they are caught.

In twitter, it is probably an automatic script to flag new accounts registered via a proxy.

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