{"id":229,"date":"2013-01-15T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/botbusters-an-algorithmic-web-service-to-help-you-assess-the\/"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:41:00","slug":"botbusters-an-algorithmic-web-service-to-help-you-assess-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/botbusters-an-algorithmic-web-service-to-help-you-assess-the\/","title":{"rendered":"BotBusters. An algorithmic web service to help you assess the&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[The last sentence is the interesting one. -egg]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/algopop.tumblr.com\/post\/40521255223\">BotBusters. An algorithmic web service to help you assess the&#8230;<\/a>: <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/24.media.tumblr.com\/366187d5e98eedae673c7e7a47c827de\/tumblr_mgbjblX59e1rman24o1_500.png?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/24.media.tumblr.com\/eef0485f1ca829dd5b6b34d826add086\/tumblr_mgbjblX59e1rman24o3_500.png?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebotbusters.com\/\">BotBusters<\/a>. An algorithmic web service to help you assess the likelihood of a twitter account being run by a bot. It takes one to know one. The service was used to help identify \u201csuspicious Twitter accounts that were posting identical messages, always in support of the same political party, Mexico\u2019s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredenterprise\/2012\/06\/twitter_arm\/\">Source<\/a><br \/>The service is being misused by bots to measure their own bot-score, and through recursive genetic algorithms, work towards lowering that score to the human end of the scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The last sentence is the interesting one. -egg] BotBusters. An algorithmic web service to help you assess the&#8230;: BotBusters. An algorithmic web service to help you assess the likelihood of a twitter account being run by a bot. It takes one to know one. The service was used to help identify \u201csuspicious Twitter accounts that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-3H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}