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It's a Tuesday in June, and a whole ducking lot of newly-made Twitter accounts are "requesting faucet funds on the #Goerli #Ethereum test network" in a spammy repetitive fashion. #TuesdayAstroturf
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These tweets are from a network of (at least) 1281 accounts created between June 22 and June 29, 2021. Each account has tweeted exactly once, and all tweets are identical other that the cryptocurrency wallet address. All tweets were (allegedly) sent via the Twitter Web App.
Each account in the network posted its one and only tweet shortly after being created, with an average of 74 seconds and median of 68 seconds between account creation and tweet time. The longest gap between creation and tweet was slightly over ten minutes.
It's a day ending in "y", and a bunch of similar-looking accounts are attaching four letter codes to their otherwise identical tweets denying genocide and downplaying human rights abuses in Xinjiang. #TuesdayAstroturf
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We found a network of 113 accounts posting duplicate tweets about Xinjiang with random four letter codes appended. All were created between December 2020 and February 2021, generally in batches of accounts with similar naming schemes. Most use photos of scenery as profile pics.
These 113 accounts (allegedly) post all of their tweets via the Twitter Web App, generally in brief tweetstorms where most/all of the accounts tweet within an hour or so of each other. Most tweets are in English or Chinese, but the network has tweeted in 31 languages thus far.
