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A new pro-Bolsonaro, pro-Trump follow train hashtag has emerged: #BolsoTrumpTeam. It's being pushed by pretty much the same set of accounts that previously posted #Bolso22Trump24 follow trains, although some have renamed themselves. #PlatformManipulation
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#BolsoTrumpTeam is (at least) the third Bolsonaro/Trump follow train hashtag pushed by this group of accounts. The accounts all switched to the new hashtag at pretty much the same time, with almost no use of #Bolso22Trump24 after June 1st, 2021.
This table shows the most prolific posters of #BolsoTrumpTeam follow trains. Nine of them have changed their account name since the #Bolso22Trump24 days.
Here's a look at pro-Bolsonaro, pro-Trump follow train hashtag #Bolso22Trump24. (A "follow train" is a tweet listing a bunch of accounts to follow. Generally the listed accounts will follow back anyone who follows them and retweets the train.)
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This hashtag is not the first incarnation of this follower growth operation. Similar follow trains (from many of the same accounts) were tweeted with the hashtag #BolsoTrump2021 until early March 2021, when it was abruptly replaced with #Bolso22Trump24.
We downloaded all available tweets containing #Bolso22Trump24, yielding 96310 tweets from 3920 accounts. Almost all (91148 tweets, 94.6%) are retweets, and the 4144 original tweets containing the hashtag originate with just 60 accounts.
