BotDetector

Program that uses Twitter's API to analize the followers of a specific account to determine if the follower is a bot, taking into account the following criteria:

• Account Creation Dates
• Tweet Frequency
• Default Twitter Account
• Retweet Bot
• Less Followers And More Followees.
• Reply Bot

Requirements

• tweepy 3.5.0
• pymongo 3.6.0
• python_dateutil 2.7.3

References

• An analysis of propaganda bots on Twitter
• Spot a Bot: Identifying Automation and Disinformation on Social Media
• Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion