TorfsBotOrNot is a Twitterbot that posts a tweet that was originally from Rik Torfs or from TorfsBot. The tweet contains a poll where hundreds of Twitter users vote every day on who they think the original source was. This polling bot is thus a form of (albeit simplified) Turing test.

Examples

Here are several examples of some interesting poll results:

By searching on Twitter using the "from:torfsbotornot 🚨" query, you can find all the tweets that passed this simplified Turing test.

Statistics

One of the motivations behind the project is finding out if TorfsBot tweets interactions (= likes + retweets) mean that it imitates Rik Torfs well, or the opposite. On the one hand, a high number of interactions could be due to being a good imitation. On the other hand, a high number of interactions could also be due to miserably failing to imitate him and thus having Twitter users laugh at TorfsBot rather than laugh with.

After three months of deployment (~=100 polls), I put this question to the test. The graph below demonstrates the relation between the original tweet's number of interactions and how many votes for "Rik Torfs" the poll received, i.e., how much the tweet sounded like the original.

The graph clearly displays a positive correlation between how many interactions a TorfsBot tweet received (red) and how much it sounded like Rik Torfs. Interestingly, the same holds for Rik Torfs himself! The more interactions his original tweet (and thus the better the original tweet was), the more Twitter users were convinced the tweet was originally authored by him.