TweetCred

Real-time credibility evaluation on Twitter.

TweetCred: Real-time credibility evaluation on Twitter

TweetCred is a real-time, web-based system that provides credibility ratings for tweets on Twitter. The system uses a supervised ranking algorithm to assess credibility based on various tweet features and user properties.
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Extension stats

Manifest V2
Users: 299
5
Rating: 3.92
(12)
Version: 2.5.3 (Last updated: 2015-10-08)
Creation date: 2015-10-08
Permissions:
  • storage
  • http://twitter.com/*
  • https://twitter.com/*
  • http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/*
Size: 312.32K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

User reviews

2021; does not work.
by Aj R, 2021-12-06

Good idea, but all tweets are given an exclamation point for a rating. Poor implementation.
by Tristan Morath, 2015-07-12

The app itself works as it's supposed to, but I'm not seeing the point of having it.
by Tanya Hockett, 2014-05-06
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Extension safety

Risk impact

TweetCred requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Request access to the following domains: twitter.com, edu.in
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Risk likelihood

We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of TweetCred. Use it at your own risk.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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