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The year 2022 is drawing to a close, and yet another low-effort Twitter spam network is tweeting about Xinjiang. #FridaySpam
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
This spam network consists of 50 accounts with female names created on April 26th and April 27th, 2022. Thus far, these accounts have posted all of their tweets via "Twitter for Android", and all appear to have been dormant between October 2nd and December 2nd.
The tweets tweeted by this network are often repeated verbatim by multiple accounts. Their content is a mix of feel-good content about Xinjiang, denial of human rights abuses by China, and tweets about U.S. political issues (abortion, student loans, military aid to Ukraine, etc).
What's up with these newly-created accounts with identical Bart Simpson avatars retweeting cryptocurrency tweets? #FridaySpam
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
The self-similar Bart Simpson accounts are part of a retweet botnet consisting of 259 accounts created in May 2022. Most of the accounts have Turkish names, and many of their profile images are duplicates.
These accounts post almost all of their tweets via a variety of custom automation apps (4643/4644 tweets, 99.9%). The accounts use a total of 10 different custom apps, with each app being used by between 12 and 41 accounts.
