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robbiebarrat / twitter-contest-enterer

Twitter bot that mass-enters contests on twitters, and (mostly) avoids bot-detection accounts.
MIT License
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Feature request: Blacklist bot spotters #2

Closed ghost closed 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

These accounts release fake contests to detect bots.

https://twitter.com/RealBotSp0tter https://twitter.com/RealBotSpotter https://twitter.com/RealB0tSpotter

If we win a contest and they find one of these tweets in our timeline they will find out we are a bot.

I tried muting and blocking them but it doesn't work, the bot eventually follows the account and it unblocks again. They don't use the same text so there is nothing to blacklist, the only thing consistent is the username.

It would be great if you could add a way to blacklist a twitter user just like we can blacklist a keyword.

Thank you for your time.

robbiebarrat commented 7 years ago

Yes this is a problem.

I noticed that the botspotter accounts post the same picture of a robot with every tweet, but it would be quicker to check for username (you could easily just get the username, replace all of the 0's with o's, and look for the word "spot" or "bot"... Hold on, putting something together really quick...

robbiebarrat commented 7 years ago

Alright - just added something that should keep it from retweeting any of those bot spotter accounts. If this doesn't work, just comment and i'll reopen the issue.