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Feb 27 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Tens of thousands of accounts have been created on Spoutible (a new social media platform powered by Bot Sentinel) over the last few weeks. What do all of them except one have in common? Answer: a Bot Sentinel score of 0% ("Normal").

cc: @ZellaQuixote
As of early evening on Saturday, February 25th, 2023, there were 96208 publicly viewable Spoutible accounts, 96207 of which have Bot Sentinel scores of 0%. The sole exception is @/MyNameIs, which was one of the earliest accounts created. screenshot of Spoutible acc...
The list of accounts and scores was obtained by programmatically triggering the functionality of the "LOAD MORE" button on the Spoutible People search with no filters, which appears to return all accounts in newest-first order (along with their Bot Sentinel scores). screenshot of Spoutible peo...screenshot of the raw JSON ...screenshot of Python code f...
Based on the BotSentinel API docs, it looks like a minimum of ten spouts would be required to obtain a meaningful score. There were 6393 accounts with at least 10 spouts at the time of analysis, all of which had scores of 0% ("Normal").
help.botsentinel.com/support/soluti… Image
Spoutible CEO Christopher Bouzy has responded that the Bot Sentinel feature is not coming to Spoutible until mid-March. This seems to contradict a Jan 21 tweet saying that the BotSentinel ratings were already implemented; I am including both tweets for the sake of completeness. Image

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