Bot or Not?

@OrlandoFLAlerts

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


Orlando Weather
Location: Orlando, Florida
Description: Severe weather alerts for Orlando, FL, plus one hourly condition reports.For more weather alerts for Twitter users, click on web link above. Feeds by NWS
URL: http://www.swasalert.com
Joined: Sat May 09 16:32:29 +0000 2009
Updates: 9878, Following: 3017, Followers: 2945.

Ignore factor: 2%

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

Blocked by 5 TwitBlock users

This is equivalent to 0.2% of @OrlandoFLAlerts's followers.

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

Marked as "not spam" by 3 TwitBlock users

Anyone can get their friends to help whitelist them, but we don't think the bots have managed it [yet].

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.