Any Twitter app to block robot accounts ?

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Does anyone know of any Twitter app that can automatically block robot Twitter accounts from following any Twitter account ?
I'm just tired of weeding out bot accounts with so and so contents.

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What's your Twitter let me see what I can do

Saajha

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Have you looked at this?

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/informationresources/a/How-To-Prevent-Strangers-From-Following-You-On-Twitter.htm

Specifically, these steps:

To control who can follow you and see your tweets, enable Twitter's "Protect my tweets" option. Here's how to do it:

1. Click the gear icon at the top right-hand corner of the your Twitter page and choose the "Settings" menu item.

2. In the "Account Section", scroll down to the "Tweet privacy" section.

3. Check the box that reads "Protect my tweets" and click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the screen.

According to Twitter support, after you protect your tweets, the following restrictions are put in place:
People will have to request to follow you; each follow request will need approval.
Your Tweets will only be visible to users you've approved.
Other users will not be able to retweet your Tweets.
Protected Tweets will not appear in Twitter search or Google search.
@replies you send to people who aren't following you will not be seen by those users (because you have not given them permission to see your Tweets).
You cannot share permanent links to your Tweets with anyone other than your approved followers.

Now this looks like an all or none deal; perhaps effective, but not efficient - because with this you'd deny all, except for the ones you selectively allow! So the solution would be for someone to identify a follower as a bot and let you add to your no-no list.

Botmaker could be the answer:

https://gigaom.com/2014/08/20/twitter-details-its-anti-spam-system-botmaker/

OR, you can harvest a known spammers list and programmatically drop association attempts from those unwelcomed guests. Below site seems to be a good starter:

http://fakers.statuspeople.com/Fakers/Wall

Hope you find a good way to stay away from those nasty spams.. Good Luck!

~@~

Khaobaadi

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Thanks Saajha for your advice and links to resources.

I was looking for ways to programmatically drop association attempts from those unwelcomed guests since I do not want people to go through the hassle of asking for permissions to read protected tweets.

I have been very frequently spammed with robots like this one which have appeared in more avatars than Bhagawan Bishnu with exactly same contents.