@starbreaker very interesting read. Made me wonder if there was a programatic way of determining if a follower is a bot or not.

@NeuroWinter When I used Birdsite, I would block any account whose following-to-follower ratio was around 1000:1.

@starbreaker i was thinking running it against someone’s account to find their fake follows vs real.

@starbreaker @NeuroWinter turns out there are tools that do that online. They are paid however.

@starbreaker @NeuroWinter i almost want to make a bot account that detects bot accounts.

@NeuroWinter Makes sense, but even if you vetted somebody and found that most of their followers are bots, that doesn't prove they bought the bots.

I had 2000 followers when I finally quit Birdsite. All but perhaps 50 were bots, but I didn't pay for them.

@starbreaker true. But I feel that the ratio of fake vs real is an interesting metric