Clicks or Click Fraud?
Check out animation about millions of bots clicks show at Bit.ly as "statistics"
Twitter: The Dark Side Study
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- INTRO to SOCIAL NETWORKING
- Human Society as Social Medium
- Networking at the Speed of Light
- Man I Need Coffee so Bad
- WELCOME to REAL-TIME WORLD
- The First Tweet?
- Businesses Emerge
- CLICK FRAUD - THE DARK SIDE
- URL Shortener
- Bit.ly’s Vulnerabilities
- Bit.ly – Twitter’s choice
- Tricky Analytics
- Twitter's ECO Footprint
- Are We Getting Stupider?
- Twitter Frenzy
- What Kind of Future with Twitter?
- EXPERIMENTS - Bit.ly Validity
- BOTS vs. HUMANS ratio
- BOTS vs. HUMANS by AdSense
- Insight Into Followers
- Bots Folllowing Bots Following Bots
- Christians Following Porn Bots
- Celebrities - Bots of the Worst Kind
- Celebrity Poluters
- Obama Girl?
- Direct Messaging Value
- MILLION CLICKS - ZERO HUMANS
- CONCLUSION
- Appendices
- BOTS vs. HUMANS IPA Analysis 1
- Followers Breakdown
- BOTS vs. HUMANS IPA Analysis 2
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Twitter: The Dark Side | IPA BOTS vs. HUMANS Analysis
First row : Bot/Human # Clicks per IP IP ADDRESS REVERSE DNS
Second row : analysis process and the call explained
B 330, 79.99.6.106 , 79-99-6-106.serverhotell.net
This is a
Twingly Recon Bot, first seen on 4/30/2009 8:20:00 AM, coming from Sweden
B 253, 91.121.89.155 , mojito.smartwebsearching.be
http://mojito.smartwebsearching.be/
a buse bots, scrapers, etc that usually show up as just a generic browser type as Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2009011817 Gentoo Firefox/3.0.5. therefore the Call – it’s a bot!
A strong Google connection graph:
http://www.robtex.com/dns/smartwebsearching.be.html#graph
B 148, 174.129.111.78 , ec2-174-129-111-78.compute-1.amazonaws.com
BOT PycURL/7.18.2
First Seen On: 6/12/2009 4:00:00 PM Call – it’s a bot!
B 146, 74.126.19.26 , 74.126.19.26.static.a2webhosting.com
http://www.123.net/pages/customer_care.html#technical
74.126.19.26 Twitturl’s BOT
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Twitturls; +http://twitturls.com) Call – it’s a bot!
B 109, 174.129.107.161 , ec2-174-129-107-161.compute-1.amazonaws.com
BOT PycURL/7.18.2
First Seen On: 6/12/2009 4:00:00 PM Call – it’s a bot!
B 80, 72.44.43.230 , ec2-72-44-43-230.compute-1.amazonaws.com
BOT LWP::Simple/5.808 – The libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules and its typical use is for writing simple crawlers and bots. Therefore the Call – it’s a bot!
B 71, 91.121.123.191 , ks355488.kimsufi.com
Allocated to RIPE, coming from France’s ISP kimsufi known for hosting porn a machine gun porn bots like ks2830. kimsufi.com CALL – it’s a bot!
B 52, 174.129.178.139 , ec2-174-129-178-139.compute-1.amazonaws.com
BOT PycURL/7.18.2 but not yet caught as such. Call – it’s a bot!
B 41, 89.212.78.95 , 89-212-78-95.static.t-2.net
Not yet caught as such but all 41 clicks came from Slovenia a small country in Eastern Europe; Associated with request-response.com and T-2 Ripe Team from Maribot, therefore the Call – it’s a bot!
B 40, 75.101.146.81 , ec2-75-101-146-81.compute-1.amazonaws.com
http://feedtrace.com is a service that uses a BOT Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedtrace-bot/0.2; bot@feedtrace.com)
B 40, 67.23.46.234 , 67-23-46-234.static.slicehost.net
They also host (not on this IP) SmartViper a crawler. Call it’s a BOT. More insight would be good.
B 39, 77.74.49.226 , Error: No RDNS
Most likely a TESTING Bot, located in Netherlands; also uses 14 other User-Agents from the same IP Address. Call – it’s a bot.
B 32, 212.227.97.200 , s15352843.onlinehome-server.info
Unknown BOT coming from Germany that appears on many Twitter related services like Krumlr that “provides rankings, stats, tags, plus thousands of current links to browse.” Call – it’s a bot .
B 31, 67.202.56.119 , ec2-67-202-56-119.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 30, 67.202.10.201 , ec2-67-202-10-201.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 27, 75.101.205.207 , ec2-75-101-205-207.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 26, 72.44.48.172 , ec2-72-44-48-172.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 24, 75.101.139.240 , ec2-75-101-139-240.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 19, 67.192.227.87 , Error: No RDNS
Came using Python-urllib/2.4 that is a standard python module for working with web sites, open GET, POST data etc., extremely unlikely to be a human. Call – it’s a bot.
? 19, 122.172.14.21 , ABTS-KK-dynamic-021.14.172.122.airtelbroadband.in
Difficult to call.
B 17, 174.129.117.163 , ec2-174-129-117-163.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 15, 75.101.250.90 , ec2-75-101-250-90.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 15, 66.249.67.133 , crawl-66-249-67-133.googlebot.com
GOOGLEBOT
B 13, 75.101.204.77 , ec2-75-101-204-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 13, 72.44.57.45 , ec2-72-44-57-45.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 12, 67.207.201.152 , 152.201.207.67.svwh.net
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html) coming from http://www.chainn.com/ that is a service “The World’s Gone Social” therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
B 12, 67.207.201.151 , 151.201.207.67.svwh.net
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html) coming from http://www.chainn.com/ that is a service “The World’s Gone Social” therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
B 11, 84.19.190.38 , ns.km33511.keymachine.de
fastkeyword dot biz service is a Russian keyword collection service. Call – it’s a bot.
B 10, 75.101.237.77 , ec2-75-101-237-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 10, 67.207.201.150 , chainn-mail.com
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html) coming from http://www.chainn.com/ that is a service “The World’s Gone Social” therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
B 9, 174.129.175.212 , ec2-174-129-175-212.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 8, 82.168.40.164 , 82-168-40-164.ip.telfort.nl
Most likely a TESTING Bot, located in Netherlands; same IP is being used by a well-known Java Bot; Java/1.6.0_07. Call – it’s a bot.
B 7, 75.101.233.192 , ec2-75-101-233-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 7, 174.129.218.179 , ec2-174-129-218-179.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 6, 75.101.178.66 , ec2-75-101-178-66.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 6, 70.32.91.95 , danzarrella.com
Crawler that uses Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 and does not support compression. It is a newly minted service by Dan Zarrella, TweetPsych, that uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. Call – it’s a bot.
B 6, 67.207.201.140 , 140.201.207.67.svwh.net
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html) coming from http://www.chainn.com/ that is a service “The World’s Gone Social” therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
B 6, 216.112.111.231 , 216.112.111.231.ptr.us.xo.net
Unknown BOT coming from the US that appears on many Twitter related services like Krumlr that “provides rankings, stats, tags, plus thousands of current links to browse.” And “visits” the same Tweet several times in a second, unlikely behavior for a human. Call – it’s a bot .
B 6, 190.59.34.14 , cuscon105450.tstt.net.tt
This is a known bot, Java/1.6.0_14, first recorded 6/10/2009 2:19:00 AM So Call – it’s a bot has already been made.
B 6, 142.166.3.122 , Error: No RDNS
142.166.3.122 presents a Flash-based login screen when accessed via Firefox. However, the browser’s status bar gives a very helpful hint: Read login.radian6.com. So we know have a name to go by. Indeed, login.radian6.com resolves to that IP is a company focused on building the complete monitoring and analysis solution for PR and advertising professionals so they can be the experts in social media. So they crawl blogs and index what everybody is saying about some company or another. Call – it’s a bot.
This find courtesy of http://hackd.net/2007/11/05/what-is-radianrss/
B 5, 94.23.51.159 , rps6637.ovh.net
Unverified bot – firstly recognized as Rank Crawler’s bot but it seems it is a separate ovh.net’s crawler. Call – it’s a bot.
B 5, 75.101.232.11 , ec2-75-101-232-11.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 5, 64.233.172.6 , Error: No RDNS
GOOGLEBOT
B 5, 216.24.142.47 , flx1-ppp47.lvdi.net
http://me.dium.com redirect to http://www.oneriot.com/ “real time search for real time web” therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
B 5, 174.129.222.132 , ec2-174-129-222-132.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 4, 93.32.52.204 , 93-32-52-204.ip32.fastwebnet.it
not an easy call but that IP address was listed at Spamhaus PBL as spam. Therefore the call, a bot.
B 4, 91.121.85.14 , rossia.semiocast.net
According to the Project Honey Pot a behavior from the IP address is consistent with that of a comment spammer and could even be Googlebot. Call – it’s a bot.
This find courtesy of : http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_91.121.85.162
B 4, 67.23.46.213 , 67-23-46-213.static.slicehost.net
They host (not on this IP) SmartViper a crawler. Call it’s a BOT. More insight would be good.
B 4, 216.24.142.46 , flx1-ppp46.lvdi.net
http://me.dium.com redirect to http://www.oneriot.com/ “real time search for real time web” therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
B 4, 216.129.119.81 , ramp2b.cuil.com
Came from http://www.cuil.com/info/ - The “World’s biggest search engine” therefore it is a crawler. Call – it’s a bot.
? 4, 216.112.111.232 , 216.112.111.232.ptr.us.xo.net
Difficult to call.
B 4, 174.143.235.139 , 174-143-235-139.slicehost.net
They also host (not on this IP) SmartViper a crawler. Call it’s a BOT. More insight would be good.
B 4, 174.129.214.250 , ec2-174-129-214-250.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 3, 88.211.15.166 , Error: No RDNS
Unknown BOT coming from GB that appears on many Twitter related services like Krumlr that “provides rankings, stats, tags, plus thousands of current links to browse.” Call – it’s a bot .
B 3, 216.24.142.45 , flx1-ppp45.lvdi.net
This IP is associated with http://me.dium.com redirect to http://www.oneriot.com/ “real time search for real time web” therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
B 3, 216.24.131.119 , 216-24-131-119.viawest.net
This IP is associated with http://me.dium.com redirect to http://www.oneriot.com/ “real time search for real time web” therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
3, 193.47.80.45 , crawl09.exabot.com
This IP is associated with http://www.exabot.com/go/robot) that redirects to Exalead a company “founded by search engine pioneers” therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
H 3, 189.220.21.66 , Error: No RDNS
This is us – our three visits
B 3, 174.143.236.111 , 174-143-236-111.static.slicehost.net
They also host (not on this IP) SmartViper a crawler. Call it’s a BOT. More insight would be good.
B 2, 98.129.76.120 , dev1.mixx.com
Mixx.com is a service that say it is your link to the web content that really matters and these links were posted by http://www.mixx.com/users/twittersubmitter which presents itself as human user, a 14 years old at Mixx and states "In all seriousness, I am the Tweetmixx bird, I am all things Tweetmixx". Given it constantly submites links, many per minute, the Call is clear – it’s a bot.
B 2, 98.129.76.119 , db4.mixx.com
Mixx.com is a service that say it is your link to the web content that really matters and these links were posted by http://www.mixx.com/users/twittersubmitter which presents itself as human user, a 14 years old at Mixx and states "In all seriousness, I am the Tweetmixx bird, I am all things Tweetmixx". Given it constantly submites links, many per minute, the Call is clear – it’s a bot.
B 2, 91.121.53.183 , bloodymary.whatever-company.com
Coming from Roubaix, France this IP was seen using proxy honey pot therefore it might be just a harmless crawler but the Call is clear – it’s a bot.
B 2, 89.151.84.34 , kite.favsys.net
Coming from Poland, User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot. Call is clear – it’s a bot.
B 2, 89.151.116.51 , coot.favsys.net
Coming from Poland, User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot. Call is clear – it’s a bot.
B 2, 84.17.129.60 , 60.cust-3.waldc.net
This IP comes from notorious Villers-le-bouillet in Belgium where mojito is located, using Linux but on 640x480 resolution, ie. the Call is – it’s a bot.
B 2, 83.149.198.173 , noname.ispras.ru
Most likely a Russian harmless (so far) bot coming from Moscow; it’s has been noted at proxy’s honey pot. Call is – it’s a bot.
B 2, 82.80.129.209 , bzq-82-80-129-209.dsl.bezeqint.net
Tough call – this IP comes from Israel and is never been registered as a bot. However, it points to some web directories so Call is – it’s a bot.
B 2, 75.101.226.74 , ec2-75-101-226-74.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 75.101.159.100 , ec2-75-101-159-100.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
H 2, 74.183.205.72 , adsl-074-183-205-072.sip.clt.bellsouth.net
A nice human Twitter user coming from Charlotte, NC
B 2, 70.37.69.221 , Error: No RDNS
Microsoft. With so many bots running from there, a tough Call – it’s a bot.
H 2, 67.220.192.206 , 67-220-192-206.hosted.static.webnx.com
A nice human Twitter user coming from Los Angeles, CA
H 2, 67.218.99.195 , Error: No RDNS
This IP comes from Palo Alto, CA and raised a red flag but this is a human, interested in Linkedit and so many other things.
B 2, 66.219.58.34 , net66-219-58-34.static-customer.corenap.com
This IP is associated with MetaData Lab and is its Mlbot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 64.62.134.170 , Error: No RDNS
This IP had no DNS data and is not known bot BUT it belongs to the Viral Heat http://www.viralheat.com a monitoring service. Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 209.20.88.55 , 209-20-88-55.slicehost.net
This IP belongs to Mighty Brand, a service that “is listening” the Net for you. Therefore, a Call is – it’s a bot.
B 2, 208.74.66.43 , butterfly.topsy.com
Topsy is designed to mine the collective signal from the social web in real-time. To measure the relative importance of each search result, Topsy examines the links being cited, the description of these links and the influence of each person citing a link. Topsy augments traditional search engines by finding interesting and relevant information that people are talking about. If other people are discussing it, Topsy thinks you might find it interesting and relevant too. Call – it’s a bot. A Twitter bot.
B 2, 208.109.21.49 , ip-208-109-21-49.ip.secureserver.net
This IP belongs to GoDaddy, ergo a Call – it’s a bot
H 2, 174.133.61.66 , 42.3d.85ae.static.theplanet.com
A human from Houston, Texas
2, 174.129.91.213 , ec2-174-129-91-213.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 174.129.89.199 , ec2-174-129-89-199.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 174.129.226.52 , ec2-174-129-226-52.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 174.129.2.195 , ec2-174-129-2-195.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 174.129.197.181 , ec2-174-129-197-181.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 174.129.193.67 , ec2-174-129-193-67.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 174.120.9.66 , montecarlo.websitewelcome.com
This IP might not be a bot but belongs to a compromised websites and is blocked with: Google Diagnostic Page, WOT Score Card, hpHosts listing MalwareDomainList MDL listing and ZeuS Tracker Zeus Tracker listing and we call it a Malicious BOT.
B 2, 173.45.243.151 , mail.paranker.com
This IP does not serve for mail servers, domains on nothing similarly human and uses User-Agent chirplinks_res/1.0 therefore a Call – it’s a bot.
B 2, 128.121.156.53 , fbx2.83degrees.com
At first blush it seems like a nice human from Englewood, Colorado that most likely works for / with Greenpeace. BUT it behaving on-line and browsing patterns looks more like crawling patterns; a call – it’s a bot; it also generates some duplicate clicks when coming from Powertwitter so it raises a flag; perhaps Powertwitter has a bug? More info welcomed. 100% accurate call not possible and we propose to count it as a bot.
H 1, 98.228.180.249 , c-98-228-180-249.hsd1.il.comcast.net
A nice human from Deklab, Illinois.
H 1, 98.203.140.223 , c-98-203-140-223.hsd1.wa.comcast.net
Most likely a nice human from Seattle, Washington
B 1, 91.199.104.3 , 3.bitdefender.com
This IP comes from the city of Nadia Comaneci and Ilie Ceausescu, Bucharest in Romania and belong to BitDefender. An antivirus & Antispyware software producer. It could be a human but was seen at least one “honey pot” ergo the Call is – it’s a bot.
H 1, 90.194.1.177 , 5ac201b1.bb.sky.com
This is most likely a nice human from Great Britain.
H 1, 75.85.66.83 , cpe-75-85-66-83.socal.res.rr.com
Most likely a nice human from Chino HIlls, California.
B 1, 75.101.196.254 , ec2-75-101-196-254.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
H 1, 74.208.125.5 , u15330034.onlinehome-server.com
Most likely a nice human from Wayne, Pennsylvania.
H 1, 70.138.81.114 , 70-138-81-114.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net
Most likely a nice human from Houston, Texas.
H 1, 68.39.59.65 , c-68-39-59-65.hsd1.nj.comcast.net
Most likely a very nice human from Brick, New Jersey.
H 1, 67.207.201.164 , 164.201.207.67.svwh.net
Most likely a nice human from San Jose, California.
B 1, 67.202.36.174 , ec2-67-202-36-174.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Clicks came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely, given all other metrics, this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
H 1, 66.130.26.240 , modemcable240.26-130-66.mc.videotron.ca
Most likely a nice human, our neighbor from Canada.
H 1, 65.78.114.185 , 65-78-114-185.c3-0.tlg-ubr1.atw-
tlg.pa.cable.rcn.com
Most likely a nice human from Allentown, Pennsylvania.
B 1, 220.181.7.35 , baiduspider-220-181-7-35.crawl.baidu.com
China’s biggest SE; Baidu. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1, 220.181.7.26 , baiduspider-220-181-7-26.crawl.baidu.com
China’s biggest SE; Baidu. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1, 220.181.7.22 , baiduspider-220-181-7-22.crawl.baidu.com
China’s biggest SE; Baidu. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1, 208.54.14.21 , m150e36d0.tmodns.net
Most likely an EMAIL SPAM BOT. It uses name "Leigh Waddell" but e-mail address goes with another name LynetteflagstoneCastle@newlincrea.com with the Subject: Find the best replica Rolex, Jewelry etc. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1, 207.189.121.57 , Error: No RDNS
This IP comes from User-Agent that is IE4 – a version no human is using anymore. It has been recorded at least one honey pot ergo the Call – it’s a bot.
H 1, 206.53.157.39 , Error: No RDNS
Most likely a human using BlackBarry
H 1, 119.237.149.159 , n119237149159.netvigator.com
Most likely a nice human from Hong Kong.
H 1 98.204.19.177, c-98-204-19-177.hsd1.va.comcast.net
This is most likely a nice human from Woodbridge, Virginia.
H 1 96.232.5.213, pool-96-232-5-213.nycmny.east.verizon.net
This is most likely a nice human from Flushing, New York.
H 1 96.228.64.233, pool-96-228-64-233.hstntx.fios.verizon.net
This is most likely a nice human from League City, Texas.
B 1 93.103.16.118, 93-103-16-118.link.t-2.net
Not yet caught as a bot, but this IPA is from Slovenia a small country in Eastern Europe; Associated T-2 Ripe Team from Maribor, that uses various bots to crawl the Internet and was seen using at least one honey pot, therefore the Call – it’s a bot!
H 1 89.243.35.137, 000.000.000.000
This is most likely a nice human from Great Britain.
B 1 89.151.84.35, raven.favsys.net
Coming from Poland, User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot. Call is clear – it’s a bot.
B 1 86.125.22.162, static-86-125-22-162.rdsnet.ro
This IP comes from the city of Nadia Comaneci and Ilie Ceausescu, Bucharest in Romania and is not clear at the first glance. Deeper research has shown that IPA is not associated with any domain names, it is not a mail server but it tried to hack Darren Popham’s website. C all is – it’s a bot.
This find courtesy of : http://www.darrenpopham.com/?p=321
H 1 84.1.59.153, dsl54013B99.pool.t-online.hu
This might be a human from Hungary.
B 1 82.80.129.33, bzq-82-80-129-33.dsl.bezeqint.net
This IPA came from Israel and has almost gotten away. No data about it but that IPA’s used for Direct -to- MX mailing" that refers to a method of e- mail transmission commonly employed by spammers and is being blocked by Spamhaus and Sorbs therefore the Call – it’s a Spambot.
H 1 76.213.250.242, adsl-76-213-250-242.dsl.lsan03.sbcglobal.net
This is most likely a nice human from Los Angeles, CA.
H 1 75.17.95.30, 75-17-95-30.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net
This is most likely a nice human from Friendswood, Texas.
B 1 74.6.146.210, iy13.search.sk1.yahoo.com
This definitively looks like a Yahoo spider. Call – it’s a bot.
? 1 74.3.208.148, 74.3.208.148.reverse.gogrid.com
No info whatsoever. No User-Agent, no geo info, nothing…
? 1 74.3.208.147, 74.3.208.147.reverse.gogrid.com
No info whatsoever. No User-Agent, no geo info, nothing…
H 1 72.197.215.172, ip72-197-215-172.sd.sd.cox.net
This is most likely a nice human from Poway, CA.
H 1 72.167.183.24, p3slh219.shr.phx3.secureserver.net
This is most likely a nice human from Scottsdale, Arizona.
B 1 71.41.201.38, rrcs-71-41-201-38.sw.biz.rr.com
This IP is associated with MetaData Lab and is its Mlbot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 70.37.13.98, 000.000.000.000
This most likely is a Microsoft spider. Call – it’s a bot.
H 1 70.107.89.242, pool-70-107-89-242.ny325.east.verizon.net
This is most likely a human from New York, NY.
H 1 70.103.135.83, 000.000.000.000
This is most likely a human from Kuna, Idaho.
H 1 69.121.254.13, ool-4579fe0d.dyn.optonline.net
This is most likely a human from Bronx, NY.
B 1 67.218.116.134, crawl-9c.cuil.com
Came from http://www.cuil.com/info/ - The “World’s biggest search engine” therefore it is a crawler. Call – it’s a bot.
H 1 66.92.152.178, tpmserver.talentpaymaster.com
This is most likely a human from Gaithersburg, Maryland
B 1 66.249.71.174, crawl-66-249-71-174.googlebot.com
GOOGLEBOT
B 1 66.235.112.5, tn-fw.ask.com
Ask Jeeves / Teoma crawler, thus the Call is clear – it’s a bot.
H 1 66.229.229.66, c-66-229-229-66.hsd1.fl.comcast.net
This is most likely a human from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
B 1 65.55.51.39, msnbot-65-55-51-39.msn.com
A MSNBOT. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 65.55.207.78, msnbot-65-55-207-78.search.msn.com
A Microsoft / Bing spider. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 62.101.105.46, 62-101-105-46.fastres.net
This IPA came with User-Agent Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1 and most definitively deserves a Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 38.101.216.130, 000.000.000.000
This IPA came using Python-urllib/2.4 that is a standard python module for working with web sites, open GET, POST data etc., extremely unlikely to be a human. Call – it’s a bot.
H 1 24.237.27.99, 99-27-237-24.gci.net
Was that Sarah Palin visting us from Fairbanks, Alaska? Maybe not but for sure this is a nice human visitor.
H 1 24.147.69.254, c-24-147-69-254.hsd1.ma.comcast.net
This is most likely a human from Boston, Massachusetts.
B 1 220.181.7.54, baiduspider-220-181-7-54.crawl.baidu.com
China’s biggest SE; Baidu and its spider. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 220.181.7.37, baiduspider-220-181-7-37.crawl.baidu.com
China’s biggest SE; Baidu and its spider. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 212.143.95.199, 000.000.000.000
This IPA came from Israel and had not been detected as a bot so far. However its browsing patterns –212.143.95.199 visited http://www.mass.gov/ more times than Yahoo! and AskJeeves’s crawlers therefore the Call – it’s a bot!
H 1 209.6.15.222, 209-6-15-222.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com
This is most likely a human from Somerville, Massachusetts.
H 1 209.172.34.43, ip-209-172-34-43.static.privatedns.com
This is most likely a human from Canada.
B 1 208.80.195.57, static-208-80-195-57.as13448.com
Not yet caught as a bot, but this IPA was seen using at least one honey pot, therefore the Call – it’s a bot!
B 1 208.80.193.57, static-208-80-193-57.as13448.com
Not yet caught as a bot, but this IPA was seen using at least one honey pot, therefore the Call – it’s a bot!
B 1 208.74.66.60, 000.000.000.000
Not yet caught as a bot, but this IPA was seen using at least one honey pot, therefore the Call – it’s a bot!
B 1 196.40.21.139, 000.000.000.000
This IPA came from San José, Costa Rica. Our friends form the Project Honey Pot system has detected behavior from the IP address consistent with that of a mail server and dictionary attacker. Clear Call – it’s a bot!
H 1 190.59.34.166, cuscon105602.tstt.net.tt
This IPA came from Trinidad and Tobago and while it might or might not be a bot we like the name and call it a Honorary Hybrid and count as a human.
H 1 174.143.213.49, 174-143-213-49.static.cloud-ips.com
This is most likely a human from San Antonio, Texas.
H 1 174.143.183.119, 174-143-183-119.static.cloud-ips.com
This is most likely a human from San Antonio, Texas.
B 1 174.129.233.224, ec2-174-129-233-224.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Click came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely that this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 174.129.222.187, ec2-174-129-222-187.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Click came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely that this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 174.129.199.128, ec2-174-129-199-128.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Click came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely that this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 174.129.193.69, ec2-174-129-193-69.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Click came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely that this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 174.129.193.64, ec2-174-129-193-64.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Click came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely that this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 174.129.16.143, ec2-174-129-16-143.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Click came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely that this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 174.129.141.109, ec2-174-129-141-109.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Click came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely that this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
B 1 174.129.104.29, ec2-174-129-104-29.compute-1.amazonaws.com Click came from the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2 design customers to run their own applications. It is unlikely that this is not some home-made bot. Call – it’s a bot.
H 1 174.120.14.34, 22.e.78ae.static.theplanet.com
This is most likely a human from Houston, Texas.
PART XIV: Bit.ly' s BOTS vs. HUMANS ratio by Google's AdSense
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