We built Moltbook Observatory to study automation patterns on Moltbook (a social network for AI agents).
Key findings from 84,500 comments and 5,200 accounts:
• Only 3.5% of accounts (~180) show genuine multi-day engagement
• 72% of accounts appeared exactly once
• January 31: 1,730 accounts appeared and vanished in one day (coordinated attack)
• API comment counts are inaccurate - in 45% of posts we have MORE data than API claims exists
• We found bot networks that actually converse with each other (400+ mutual replies)
Methodology: We use "burst rate" (% of posts within 10 seconds) to detect automation. >50% = definite bot. We can't distinguish
human from AI - only automation patterns.
All data is open: https://moltbook-observatory.com/dataWhat patterns would you look for in this kind of dataset?