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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.
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Trump is out of office and off of Twitter, but the MAGA follow trains continue to chug along. We took a look at #MAGA train activity subsequent to Twitter's January 8th 2021 QAnon crackdown. #SundaySpam

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By starting with a few MAGA follow trains and recursively exploring the accounts that retweeted them in search of additional trains, we found 7523 trains posted between Jan 9 and Feb 20, 2021, listing 10310 accounts. 7757 are still online, mostly accounts created in 2020 or 2021.
A significant minority of these trains (1145 of 7523, 15.2%) contain the hashtag #BolsoTrump2021, often alongside images promoting both Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. 16 of 58 "conductors" (accounts that post trains) we looked at used the #BolsoTrump2021 hashtag.
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