duplicate_tweet

description

Count of how many duplicate Tweets (that are not @replies) exist within last (up to) 20 Tweets by the TSN.

purpose

Bots can send out a high number of duplicate Tweets marketing products, or posting links to destinations they would like people to visit.

This modules aims to detect duplicate Tweets that most non-twam accounts would not normally make.

grading

GRADE	1	2	3	4	5
DESC	0 Duplicates	1 Duplicate	2 Duplicates	3 Duplicates	4 or more Duplicates

example

<duplicate_tweet> 
	<date>1265550966</date> 
	<exec_time>8</exec_time> 
	<raw_data> 
		<tweets>20</tweets> 
		<duplicates>4</duplicates> 
	</raw_data> 
	<result>4</result> 
</duplicate_tweet>

data

none

notes

This module ignores @reply Tweets from the TSN, and instead processes only Tweets that are not in response to others.

There exists two similar Engine modules - duplicate_reply and duplicate_tweet to address these differences.