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What's with all these similarly-named accounts retweeting this @globaltimesnews tweet? #SundaySpam

cc: @ZellaQuixote
Answer: a few recent @globaltimesnews tweets have been amplified by two distinct groups of bots. (It's possible that they are part of the same network, but we can't prove this, so we treated them as two separate botnets for the sake of this analysis.) #ATaleOfTwoBotnets
The smaller of the two botnets consists of 76 accounts created in October and November 2020, all (allegedly) tweeting via the Twitter Android App. In an apparent lapse of creativity on the part of the botnet operators, 36 of the accounts are named either "Barb" or "Barbara".
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