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[2nd #Thread on Iraq] 1/ Earlier I posted an analysis of a Twitter campaign in Iraq calling for international attention and revolution. It was in English. The following thread is of the Arabic hashtags #العراق_تنتفض and #العراق_ينتفض (Iraq is revolting masc and fem.).
2/ I analysed around 18,000 unique accounts tweeting on either of the hashtags. 1021 accounts were created in September and October 2019. That's around 6%. 334 of these accounts were just created in the three days of October! It may or may not be unusual that most of the accounts 
3/ started being created in September 2019. This is common when we see influence campaigns, or indeed samples, as bots tend to have short lives and often created shortly before a campaign, and die upon campaigning. It could indicate there was a pre-emptive campaign, but not
