Killing Twitter Trolls: finding & validating eyewitnesses

Slides from Henk van Ess / NVJ Forum October 4th 2012

Accounts fromTwitter

Henk van Ess www.searchbistro.com @henkvaness

finding & validating eyewitnesses

Friday, October 5, 12

1. Find eyewitnesses

Problem: an eyewitness doesn’t say eyewitness very often

https://twitter.com/i/#!/search-advanced

So what do eyewitnesses say?

We studied 2000 confirmed tweets of eyewitnesses ** Henk van Ess Medialab VVOJ.NL

Personal pronoun =possible relation of the

eyewitness withfact(s)/object(s)

Use the laws of language

Difference between geodata in bio & actual tweets

geodata in bio can be easily faked

geodata in bio can be easily fakedgeodata in tweet is harder to fake

Mind your language

• Use personal pronouns with keywords

• Try also, if any, to include geodata

• Keep it simple

https://geofeedia.com

By location:

www.bing.com/social

Slides from Henk van Ess / NVJ Forum October 4th 2012twicsy.com

By pictures:

http://searchinstagram.com

http://search.coolstreaming.us/live/

By Livestreams

By newspapers

www.bing.com

2. Validation tips

all fake accountsFriday, October 5, 12

So who should we believe?

• The usual stuff: fact checking! F.e. can you find proof for the claim that Malik is an independent reporter? What does the text in Arabic say?

bio check:

https://twitter.com/malikalAbdeh

Why a Syrian reporter?

In hindsight : it makes sense :)

• Look who’s talking (to him)

Slides from Henk van Ess / NVJ Forum October 4th 2012https://twitter.com/i/#!/search-advanced

https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/realtime/to%3Amalikalabdeh

• Analyze followers & who Malik follows

https://followerwonk.com/analyze/MalikAlAbdeh

Who he follows

His followers

https://followerwonk.com/wPFV

His words

http://www.tweetstats.com/graphs/malikalabdeh

His virtual friends & more

• Do historical research. Try to find hidden data with historical research & archive.org

• Find older tweets with Datagrip/ Gnip

Check owner of the website for a period of years

http://www.domaintools.com

• Check stats for irregularities

Slides from Henk van Ess / NVJ Forum October 4th 2012http://twittercounter.com/MalikAlAbdeh/6month/followers

Is the timezone consistent?

Is this what you expected?

• Use Klout - yeah, it has some purpose :)

http://klout.com/#/MalikAlAbdeh

glance at possible topics find people who can vouch for your subject

• Do additional research in Socialmentions.com

http://socialmention.com/search?q=malikalabdeh&t=all&btnG=Search

Tip 8: too much data ? Use Excel

Excel file from http://socialmention.com/search?q=malikalabdeh&t=all&btnG=Search

• Search for more photo’s and video’s: databases of Twitter & YFrog/Mobypicture/Twitpic DO differ!

yfrog.com

http://twicsy.com/i/nAJh5

Tip 10

• Validate pictures

http://images.google.com

Twitter: we got the killer!

other tips

• is the person in a list, if yes, which one (s)?

• too good to be true ?

• consistency

• check favorite tweets

• always think contextual

next time

• how to validate protected accounts!

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