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And where do you draw the line? If you schedule a tweet to be sent in the future, is that a "bot"? And how to you make sure APIs aren't being used by bots - do you force users of 3rd party apps to enter a 1st party captcha to refresh their session every day?

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Twitter already identifies what app was used to post a tweet, if you're looking through the API not their app. It would be trivial to display that information and distinguish between apps sent by humans and by automated programs.

Sure, but then you're either pushing the responsibility on twitter to monitor how every API key they give out is used and label certain apps as bots, or on the user to look up an app and determine for themselves if it's a human or a bot.

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