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[Thread] 1/ Right now #زيطوط_خاين is trending. It translates as Zitout is a traitor. Former diplomat Mohamed Zitout has been accused of opposing the upcoming elections in Algeria, which are supported by the existing regime. Many see this regime as a continuation of the old guard.
2/ This trend is dominated by suspicious accounts. I downloaded about 5,975 interactions/tweets by around 2,640 accounts. I then analysed these accounts to see if any were bots or trolls. 838 or 14% of the accounts were created between Sept 2019 and Dec 2019. 
3/ The average number of accounts created per month since Feb 2007 is about 19. This figure shoots up in September 2019, where the average becomes around 291 accounts per month. What's more, in Sept 2019, around 200 of these accounts were created in just 3 days.
