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User Reviews for Bot Sentinel
Great Tool for Gauging Content
Long time user of Bot Sentinel in the browser, and I’ve installed the app to support the creator. Bot Sentinel is a great way to gauge the type of content an account posts. Many of the negative reviews on this app are coming from the same people who troll and post inflammable content on social media. This isn’t a tool that determines who is or isn’t real, it’s a tool to gauge what accounts exhibit bot like behavior. Unfortunately, many people spend so much time parroting phrases, so it can be tough for a simple, easy to use tool to distinguish them from bots. I’d wager that many people criticizing this application have never developed an application before, and are upset that their accounts have been flagged. I’ve been using Bot Sentinel for years and it works fine as a tool to see which accounts spend a lot of time parroting keywords from others.
Attack On Bot Sentinel/Tortious Interference
A coordinated attack on Bot Sentinel is being made here in an attempt to lower Bot Sentinel's app rating. A group of people (perhaps a group of Russian trolls?) is slandering/libeling Bot Sentinel, which is tortious interference with Bot Sentinel's business operation. Think "Dominion (voting machines) v. Malignant MAGA Slanderers," a lawsuit still proceeding through various courts and settlement negotiations. I'm happy to know there's an app!I've been using Bot Sentinel (primarily by accessing their site on Google)for a couple of years (it seems like many more due to our long national nightmares and many associated pandemic deaths by democide). Bot Sentinel is a valuable tool during this life or death situation. I use it for identifying Russian or other trolls and bots. I like the application so much that I've donated money to support Bot Sentinel. It's a terrific and needed service when you don't know if you're exchanging tweets with a person or something more sinister. It also helps sort out which tweets are just malign propaganda versus the truth.Some bot/troll accounts are dangerous, and, if I have any doubt about what I'm dealing with, I am happy that Bot Sentinel is there. It also helps me determine which accounts to report to Twitter. I hope you can put a stop to this. Never in my 60+ year lifetime have Americans been more in need of protection from malign actors around the world.
Systematically favors center-right and right-wing accounts
After using Bot Sentinel to analyze dozens of Twitter accounts, it has become clear that this app systematically categorizes politically centrist and right-wing accounts as “Normal” and “Satisfactory” and politically leftist accounts as “Disruptive” and “Problematic.” The app’s creator completely disregards the notion of transparency. He refuses to disclose the criteria used for analyzing accounts and placing them in these purely subjective categories, and there is no appeal process for accounts that receive “Disruptive” or “Problematic” ratings. The creator claims that the purpose of this app is to identify “inauthentic” Twitter accounts. Instead, he uses it to identify and silence Twitter accounts expressing political views he personally disagrees with. He then encourages mass reporting and blocking of accounts he unilaterally deems “Problematic,” which constitutes targeted harassment and is therefore against Twitter’s rules.
Disappointed with Bot Sentinel
For the past year, I have loved using Bot Sentinel to check for bots. It all changed when the creator became verified with a blue check on Twitter, my average ranking of 20% suddenly changed to 69% overnight. Then I noticed a few people on Twitter I used to interact with had blocked me almost simultaneously. Bot Sentinel used to be a great tool to weed out the bots and fake accounts, but now it is used as a tool by its creator to mass target those who do not align with his political beliefs and block them. His biased app is also a tool for Centrists to blacklist and mass block those who are real, actual, live people who lean to the Left or the Right. Many marginalized accounts, including mine as a person with disabilities, have been listed as "disruptive" and "problematic." The Bot Sentinel app is silencing all of our voices. He is also helping US government officials and staff block their constituents which violates the First Amendment. It is not okay for Trump to block people when he was the POtuS, and it took a court judge to order him to unblock everyone on social media. If it is not okay for a POTUS to block someone, it is also not okay for any other politician or government worker regardless of party affiliation to block their constituents for asking hard questions or demanding better from our government. With all that said, this is why the Bot Sentinel gets zero stars, but Apple does not allow it, so I will make do with one star.
Great to id troll and conspiracy accounts
Bot Sentinel originated as a website to show the tendency of a particular Twitter id to share unreliable content or actively troll other users. I’ve used it for several years and can say that by blocking the users it identifies as highly unreliable I have kept my feed relatively free of jerks and misinformation. Now it’s an app! By logging into Twitter through the app you can automatically see the % age unreliable posts by user. The best thing is by going into trending topics you can easily find new trolls to block. Bot Sentinel has kept me using Twitter. I can see my favorite journalists, scientists, progressive activists and academics in my feed without being distracted by (or dragged into) ridiculous crap trying to bring us down to the lowest level of discourse. I couldn’t be happier.
Scam
The programmer, and I use that term loosely, didn't create an AI or algorithm for this app or its sister site. It's literally WordPress, a spreadsheet, a list of accounts, and keywords. He then assigns a score, not based on if an account appears to exhibit bot like behavior, but, rather, if he approves or not of the content on personal feelings. These scores range from normal to problematic but doesn't distinguish why. In addition, the "programmer" encourages people to report accounts based off his erroneous scoring system, most of whom are real people, essentially attempting to silence them. The past 6 weeks have proved to be strange for this app as people whose scores ranked 8% and normal in April and for all earlier checks, jumped greatly to disruptive or problematic with no change in behavior; some even on hiatus during that time period. When challenged on why, the "programmer" immediately insults them then blocks, stubbornly declaring the site and app work fine. One can only take that to mean that he purposely choose specific phrases certain types of Twitter accounts use in order to encourage others to help remove them from that site. I don't know why or how anyone would take this app seriously.
Don’t listen to the review bombers
This app is pretty handy. For one, it’s a hybrid of the normal Twitter app and TweetDeck, making running multiple accounts a bit easier without either sacrificing the simple feel of the app or having both individual apps take ip space on your phone. It also has features to give users a warning of if an account is likely to be run by a bot or not. They use the Bot Sentinel rating for this, a score given by a nonprofit machine learning algorithm launched in 2018 for the non-partisan purpose of stopping the spread of disinformation (intentionally misleading information). It actually has a direct link to their website as well where you can see they analyze and score all accounts. I bring up politics because many of the people review bombing are upset that many of the hashtags and accounts that get flagged tend to be geared towards conservatives, leading them to believe Bot Sentinel was made for “silencing their freedom of speech”, much like they feel towards Twitter itself and any other social media for having a ToS that bans harassment and hate speech. Please do not believe their disinformation about a bot trying to end disinformation. You can go to Bot Sentinel’s own website and check them out for yourself, reading their about and FAQ to inform yourself. At least give it a shot instead of listening to those with a clear reason to encourage you not to trust something calling out their commonly spread around lies.
Silencing anti Democratic Party voices
We are told that this app was created to identify bots. This may have been true in the past, but it’s new function appears to be silencing critics of the Democratic Party and the US empire. The founder Christopher Bouzy tweeted in 2019 “I am going to enjoy producing Bernie Sander’s attack ads. I am going to make it my mission to prevent him from winning a single primary”. He also tweeted “A bunch of problematic accounts are about to go through some things”. Many of the real human activists that I follow have seen their ratings go from “normal” to “disruptive” or “problematic”. Even the World Health Organization became “Disruptive” in the new algorithm (until they were called out. Now it’s rating is back to normal) Meanwhile, Dem Party leaders Biden, Harris, Pelosi & Schumer all have a perfect (0) score.
A must for a pleasant Twitter experience
I’ve been using BotSentinel for as long as they have had plugins for my desktop web browsers, and this app encapsulates that functionality in an app. Clearly identifies potentially problematic accounts, allowing me to be selective about accounts I allow in my feed. Their classification algorithm is excellent, though as is to be expected, any automated system will make errors. However the few accounts I’ve seen that appear to be mis-classified DO often engage in online behaviors that I suspect an algorithm could flag. There are actors on social media with a disruptive agenda and this is a must-have to quickly alert me to problem accounts, allowing me to avoid engaging with & amplifying their disinformation and inflammatory messaging.
What is Bot Sentinel?
Just tried Bot Sentinel on Twitter and I’m not impressed. BotSent may have another purpose besides warning the user about bots, which it doesn’t exactly do anyway. Lacking the bot finding function implied in its name, what DOES BotSent do? Noticing the first “Disruptive” label slapped on a Twitter account by BotSent, I reviewed it, but the app analysis I asked for registered a “Normal” finding. Hmmm…I found nothing “disruptive” in the tweets. Zilch. Why identify an account with 2 contradictory terms, I wondered? And where are indicators showing the presence of a bot? One could call the account’s tweets “left leaning”, but that’s all. I couldn’t find signs of automated response nor any other common symptoms of bots. I get the impression Bot Sentinel is more a censorship of “liberal” opinions tool, but can only guess at what the app creator’s purpose really is. I also wonder, “What is done with my interactive data?”
Description
Bot Sentinel is an app for Twitter that identifies inauthentic accounts and toxic trolls using machine learning and artificial intelligence. The app can accurately classify accounts with an accuracy of 95%. Unlike other machine learning tools designed to identify “bots,” we focus on specific behaviors and activities deemed inappropriate by Twitter rules.
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