BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter. The tool is developed by the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University --- the same lab that brought to you Botometer and Hoaxy. BotSlayer is not a tool to detect and remove likely social bots from your list of Twitter followers or friends. For that purpose, check out Botometer. If you just want to visualize the spread of some piece of information, consider Hoaxy. BotSlayer can be used, for example, by journalists, corporations, and political candidates to discover in real-time new coordinated campaigns in their domains of interest, without any prior knowledge of these campaigns. The system is easily installed and configured in the cloud to monitor bot activity around a standing user-defined query. All you need is a Twitter developer app key to fetch data from the Twitter streaming API.
Features
- SQL script to create database
- Python crawler script (control by circus manager)
- The Dockerfile uses SupervisorD to manage multiple entry points
- BotSlayer-CE provides users with a dashboard that is accessible through any web browser
- Users can also re-order the entities by different metrics like botness and trendiness
- Trendiness is calculated as the ratio between the entity volume in two consecutive time windows
Project Samples
