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Despite having tweeted #FollowMeJP daily for almost a decade (via automation tool twittbot(dot)net), none of these accounts has managed to pick up more than 100 followers. #WednesdayWisdom
cc: @ZellaQuixote
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These accounts are part of a botnet consisting of 125 Japanese-language accounts created on December 11th and 12th, 2011. Each account name consists of a lowercase English word with one or two random characters added to both the beginning and the end of the name.
These accounts behave in an extremely predictable fashion, posting exactly one tweet per day, resulting in 125 total tweets per day from the network (with rare exceptions). All tweets are sent via automation service twittbot(dot)net, and all 125 bots have default profile pics.
