The new #pushshift API that will soon be out of beta makes detecting bots on social media a breeze. Comment data from the first week of August was used to aggregate and find accounts with the lowest median reply delays to other comments.
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Interesting heuristic to detect bots! Have you done any evaluation on it yet?
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Thank you Tim! I have not gotten to that stage. My main focus at the moment is getting the new API ready for prime-time, improving the documentation for the Pushshift API and making sure all the checks pass. I do want get back to bot detection research but that will probably
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