Botometer BAD scores on ALL twitter accounts

Now so with twitter looking for new algorithims to fight against bots, botometer (google it) is a good indicator of where we could be headed.

Currently all my accounts are botted limited times a day, i have no auto schedule just when i decide to deal with them. I want my accounts to survive without being sms locked so followers are not important on these specific accounts.

This dumb forum wont even let me post an image so here.... i.gyazo com/1994881b548e0c7f9fef56e22944bdec


HOW Do we improve on this? I realize bursts of tweets allwithin a 5min timespan once a day might not be good but this should NOT tip an algorithm off so much. I should be able to do my stuff in bursts if i want, that does not mean im a bot. I seriously doubt its weighted heavily to time of day. Can someone explain what the categories in this bot detector mean, like friend? Is that the relevence of friends? Bot scores of friends?Same with "Network" etc.. I assume alot of it is having people retweet stuff on my page. if i have followers and noone retweets my posts it probably adds to the bot score.


I just want to know some opinions from more experienced users of what could be done to improve my bot scores and if you know of any floors in the algorithm. If i can get my complete automation probability to under <15% i would be happy, same with all my scoress below 2.5

Twitter section is quite dead on this site, it feels only right to make this post as Twitter begins a huge leap in fighting off bots in more machine learning ways.

I use a common tool for autoposting 80-90 "Summary Large Image" twitter cards per day and I follow less than 50 people per day with a ton of filters on the follow bot. I don't unfollow as I believe this is the most obvious spam metric. A legitimate user might follow a lot of accounts, but then turning right around and unfollowing those accounts is really obvious. I never like, retweet or auto-comment with the bot because it will invariably interact with spam. I manually comment on tweets to make it appear to their staff that the account is not completely on autopilot. Even so, my bot score is 39% probability of complete automation. I ran the tool on my followers and found that some of them are scored in the 80%-90% bot probability. Accounts like this will be the first to go.

Another thing to consider is that the botometer probably doesn't know how many people you've followed/unfollowed during the lifetime of the account, nor does it know which IPs you are using to connect. These metrics could push the botometer much higher.

I do not know what "network" means, but it might mean that you are receiving a lot of likes and retweets from the same accounts over and over again or that your accounts follows a lot of low-quality accounts. Run botometer on your own followers and block some of the obvious bots. Wait a few weeks then check your score again. Also, check who you are following and unfollow any obvious bots. You should also find some accounts with really great botometer scores and try to emulate their metrics. Certain ratios of likes, comments and retweets etc..

If you are a bot account and you're highly active, you're going to rank high on the some of the metrics no matter what you do. I think 2.5 might be unrealistic, but I believe that improving your scores overall would be wise. You don't have to be perfect, just not obvious. Twitter is clearly taking steps to kill bots and engagement spam. I heard on "The View" on ABC American TV this morning that Twitter announced that they will be deleting accounts with fake followers.