Spoutible is apparently a reskinned version of cheap social network software you can buy off the shelf, which matches with my experience of Bouzy and his hyperbolic claims to the media and general huckster nature.

https://mementomori.social/@rolle/109845742736153944

@darius first read as Spoutbile

@darius There's also been this fun https://critteranne.medium.com/is-spoutible-fighting-with-romance-writers-and-fans-86b6ecdd7a1d

@darius I do find it frustrating to come across uncalibrated estimation routines; to see someone "correctly predict twenty of the last eight bot nets"

@darius 1 ) awesome you were quoted in wired !
2) I’ve said in the past, if Musk were serious abou catching bots, he’d add a CAPTCHA to the “send tweet” button

@darius He defined my turdsite account as a bot because I called out the shit behind the algo years back when he started it.

@darius I've read that he also made the start-up money for Bot Sentinel from crypto scams. He also sometimes engages in quite toxic behaviour on Twitter, effectively doxxing people to his large following. Most of the time, it's clear those people deserved to be exposed, but other times? Not so much.

On those occasions, we're expected to just take Bouzy's word for it that these are problematic characters, and that putting their personal safety at risk was justified.

@darius it maybe time for me to plan a quiet exit from Spoutible

@darius I keep reading that as 'spoutbile' and I don't see the mistake.

@darius One or two firms in the marketing side of the business have had some solid success with evidence-based detection of bot networks, keeping their heads slightly above water against the daily code changes written specifically to counter their detection tools. Platform and publisher sides of the business have been reluctant to use them on content because of expense. Not an easy problem to solve but industry can do much better.