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#FlagsOutForFlynn (accompanied by #InItTogether) trended yesterday (May 1, 2020) due to a barrage of tweets that began at 2:17 PM Pacific Time. Although very little of the traffic appears to be automated, the sudden spike sure looks coordinated. What happened?
cc: @ZellaQuixote
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Answer: the May 1st #FlagsOutForFlynn/#InItTogether spam was announced the previous day by #QAnon account @elenochle. The announcement received thousands of retweets and was also copied numerous times. Does "Operation #InItTogether ROUND 6" mean there were previous tweetstorms?
Yes indeed. Round 5, for example, took place on 4/24 and consisted of spamming an armed Pepe The Frog meme accompanied by the hashtags #InItTogether and @WWG1WGA. Once again, the campaign was announced by @elenochle. The presence of Japanese Q accounts is interesting. #AltWankers
Despite 27 months of failed prophecies, the #QAnon family of conspiracy theories continues to soldier on. We wrote about it in 2017 when it crossed over from 4chan to Twitter, and decided it was time for an updated analysis.
#CarryOnMyWaywardConspiracyTheory
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#CarryOnMyWaywardConspiracyTheory
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@ZellaQuixote We downloaded the last ten days worth of tweets containing #QAnon, #WWG1WGA, or #FollowTheWhiteRabbit, yielding 458487 tweets from 75776 accounts. What's up with those big spikes in traffic every few days? #StateOfTheQnion
@ZellaQuixote Answer: the spikes are swarms of replies containing "Q sent me" or #QSentMe to specific tweets. The tweets being targeted are those linked by whoever is currently posting as Q on 8chan/8kun, and the swarms generally consist of thousands of accounts.
This tweet from @SenJohnMcCain received a barrage of spammy replies crammed with as many hashtags as possible. There's some variety, but all seem to contain #opmayflower2018. (Thanks @Shaun7559 for the tip.)
Looking at replies to McCain containing #opmayflower2018 results in 4808 tweets (including retweets) from 397 accounts; 983 original tweets from 47 accounts. The activity started at 6:30 PM Central on 5/11; volume is high for a little over an hour.
This table shows the frequency of the various hashtags included in the #opmayflower2018 tweets. We'll come back to the ones highlighted in blue (cyan?) later.
