Updates:If you don't want to read the full post - check the FAQ Bots. Twitter bots. They are the problem actual for both sides: bounty hunters and managers.
Bounty hunters get paid less and in some cases are not able to enter a campaign (e.g. bountyhive campaigns) due to a large number of participants, most of whom are bots.
Bounty managers also suffer from them as they need to analyze more Twitter accounts and check more reports.
A bountyhive campaign. Looks familiar?An existing solution (Twitter Audit) is useless in finding bots and analyzes only users’ followers.
Bot accounts have basically follow-for-follow followers who are marked as real by the service, so it does not bear any value.
What’s the solution?
TwitterScoring. This is a web application that automatically analyzes Twitter profiles and gives them scores depending on their quality.
The score is based on 3 main criteria: personal tweets, posting timings and social engagement.
Personal tweets. It shows how much a specific user posts his own tweets. TwitterScoring analyzes last 100 posts excluding replies. Bot accounts are full of retweets from different projects, so they will not get high scores for this criterion.
Posting timings. It shows how often a specific user posts from his account. Bot accounts participate in many bounty campaigns, so they need to post a lot to meet their rules. Such behavior is noted by TwitterScoring and users with overposting can't get high scores.
Social engagement. It shows how active is the user audience. As already noted, bot accounts have basically follow-for-follow followers who do not really follow their updates, so bot profiles do not have likes and retweets under their tweets and in most cases get 0 for this criterion.
All criteria are calibrated on more than 10 000 real Twitter accounts. It’s not hard to get a score of 50 if you have enough personal tweets and do not post too much. The remaining half is based on social engagement and it’s not an easy task to get a score of 100 in total. TwitterScoring was designed to rank people from nobody to celebrity and that is why social engagement means a lot.
Scores of some crypto influencersNot only bot accounts can get low scores on TwitterScoring, but also people who prefer quantity over quality as they post too much and often quickly to complete all campaigns at one time.
So, how to determine whether a specific user is a bot or not and to not leave behind all bounty hunters?Analysis of DAOstack bounty participants (
report) has shown that users
with scores less than 10 can be considered as
bots. Such users have 4 personal tweets and a 40-minute difference between posts (36 posts per day) on average.
People
with scores more than 10 and less than 20 can be considered as
quantitative hunters. They have much more personal tweets (23), but the posting difference is approximately equal to the bots’ value.
Half of the people (566 participants) have a score greater than 27 (
update). Starting from a score of 30, average personal tweets count increases to 44 and the posting difference goes to 360 minutes (4 posts per day).
The score of 30 would be the optimal value for most Twitter campaigns – a significant part of bounty hunters will remain, they will get paid at least twice as much and BMs work will decrease by the same amount.
Scores' distribution. The best score is 73 and it belongs to a participant of the Eloncity bounty campaign which is known for its severe rules of social programs. (
Guides)
1. Click on the profile icon on the left side of the search bar.
2. Authorize with Twitter.
3. Click on the update button.
4. Wait for your profile to be checked.
5. If everything is OK, you will see “Status: Updated”. The first update is free, after that you will need to pay 0.5$ (in ETH) to update your profile again. Active status remains for 1 month.
If you’d like to check your friends’ or bounty hunters’ profiles, then just type a username in the search bar and submit it. (
Multi-search)
That is all about TwitterScoring. Share the post with your friends, hunters & managers.
Together we can defeat bots and improve bounty hunting.
