Bot or Not?

@FederalWayAlert

Examine the facts below, but please only block this account if you are sure it's spam.


Federal Way Weather
Location: Federal Way, Washington
Description: Severe weather alerts for Federal Way, WA, plus one hourly condition report. For more weather alerts for Twitter users, click on web link above. Feeds by NWS
URL: http://www.swasalert.com
Joined: Wed Jun 17 00:52:29 +0000 2009
Updates: 8401, Following: 861, Followers: 844.

Ignore factor: 2%

This account follows more people than follow back, but within a reasonable boundary.

Blocked by 1 TwitBlock user

This is equivalent to 0.1% of @FederalWayAlert's followers.

People get blocked for all sorts of reasons, but the higher this ratio the more likely the account is a nuisance.

Shares the same photo as 135 other accounts that people have blocked.

Duplicate profile pics across multiple accounts is a trait almost unique to spam accounts.

We maintain a leaderboard of the most re-used photos.

Tweets via API

This account's last tweet was from an unregistered app.

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