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Social media voting has begun for the 2020 #iHeartAwards, and somebody's already put an automated thumb on the proverbial scale. What's up with those daily surges of IFTTT traffic?

cc: @ZellaQuixote
@ZellaQuixote Answer: an IFTTT botnet is spamming "#iHeartAwards #Thotiana #BestRemix" to the tune of 145810 tweets from 1030 automated accounts since social media voting opened on January 8th. No other entry appears be experiencing automated voting on anything approaching this scale.
@ZellaQuixote To give you a sense of what this network's tweets actually look like, here's 30 seconds or so worth of scrolling through their tweets.

Search phrase that (at least for now) brings up these bots:

#iHeartAwards #Thotiana #BestRemix source:IFTTT
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