verifytweet 0.6.0

A tool to verify Tweet screenshots

Verify Tweet

Fake tweet images can be generated using a preset meme template from websites like: TweetGen, Prank Me Not and Simitator . Verification of such tweets takes a manual work to find the user, scroll through their timeline and matching. A viral fake tweet image can prove crucial at a time.

A fake tweet screenshot looks very convincing, misleading the general public. For example:

Tweet 1	Tweet 2

Verify Tweet attempts to resolve the problem by letting users upload such tweet screenshots and verify if the user actually tweeted or not. A combination of Image processing, Natural language processing as well as Twitter Search API makes this possible.

Installation

Prerequisites

• Install Tesseract-OCR and add to PATH.
• Install ImageMagick and add to PATH.
• Python >= 3.6

Installing via pip:

pip install verifytweet

Or via pipenv:

pipenv install verifytweet

Usage

Quickstart

verifytweet -f <path_to_image_file>

Help

verifytweet --help

License

Verify Tweet is released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.

Future features

• Support for Image links
• Support for Tweets with replies