Better than default Twitter app
I love this app. It allows me to quickly verify whether the person I am dealing with on Twitter is a bot or a real person. If a real person, it allows me to see if they are a troublemaker, problematic, or a normal user. The only thing I wish the developers would add to this is when I am in a web browser like Safari and I open a Twitter link, I wish there was the option to open this app instead of the Twitter app.
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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?”
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Almost great
I’ve been using the app for a few days and so far everything seems great except that it keeps refreshing my feed and moving me way up. I’m constantly having to scroll back down, which makes the app almost unusable. The twitter app did the same thing but not nearly as frequently. Load new stuff, sure, but let me keep reading where I’m at.
Update: I’m deleting this app. I can’t even scroll through replies.
Update: I’m deleting this app. I can’t even scroll through replies.
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Tremendously useful for filtering out the junk
I’ve used Bot Sentinel in Chrome for a long time, and found it super-helpful for flagging a lot of the garbage (bots, trolls, etc.) on Twitter. Very glad there’s now an app version for the iPad!
Excellent & easy to use
It flags tweets from bots very effectively so you know which accounts are real.
It’s so good at that it’s been attacked by both the extremes on the right and left. No better testament to how effective it is.
It’s so good at that it’s been attacked by both the extremes on the right and left. No better testament to how effective it is.
