Identifying Twitter Bots
TWITTER – BOTS vs HUMANS
“Twitter timeline towers visualize the entire 3200 most recent tweets of a specific Twitter user account. Twitter restricts tweet collection to the most recent 3200 tweets. To my understanding this is non-negotiable. If I could visualize all tweets from a specific account, I would. That’s what I love to do. Sadly, that’s not an option, so I’m doing the best I can with what I have. It’s an interesting restriction, in some ways working with this constraint simplifies things.
– Jeff Sales
Our initial goal with these towers was to find ways of visually distinguishing between Twitter bots and not-bots. We also created a ‘perceptualization’ combining visual and audio information rendered synchronously to simulate a ‘music box’ or ‘player piano’ effect.“