TweetmemeBot
What is TweetmemeBot?
About
TweetmemeBot is an intelligence gatherer operated by Meltwater. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.
You can set up agent analytics to see when TweetmemeBot visits your website.
Detail
Operator | Meltwater |
Documentation | http://datasift.com/bot.html |
Type
Expected Behavior
The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.
Insights
TweetmemeBot Visiting Your Website
Other Websites
Access Control
Should I Block TweetmemeBot?
Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.
Using Robots.txt
You can block TweetmemeBot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. We recommend setting up agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
User Agent Token | Description |
---|---|
TweetmemeBot |
Should match instances of TweetmemeBot |
# robots.txt
# This should block TweetmemeBot
User-agent: TweetmemeBot
Disallow: /