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On January 13th, 2020, shortly before midnight Pacific time, our good friend @DrunkAlexJones debuted the hashtag #FishingForRobots in order to, well, fish for robots. #ThursdayThoughts #ManyFishBite

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@DrunkAlexJones @ZellaQuixote We used three different tools (Hypefury, Crowdfire, and TweetDeck) to schedule @DrunkAlexJones #FishingForRobots tweetstorms at roughly midnight PST on seven recent occasions. 91 additional accounts picked up the hashtag, 76 of which are at least mostly automated.
@DrunkAlexJones @ZellaQuixote We designed #FishingForRobots tweets to attract bots, and evolved them several times over the course of the experiment. The first set of tweets (sent via Hypefury) contained hashtags we knew from previous experience would likely result in bots retweeting or cloning the tweets.
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Our recent thread on @Robotnik69 attracted some degree of trolling. We'll take a look at a few of the accounts that replied. First up: @Cosmopolitka, an account that tweets in a mix of Dutch and English. #ManyFishBite

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Rather than commenting on the actual content of the thread, @Cosmopolitka expressed confusion that my account is currently marked "sensitive" and @Robotnik69 is not. Here's the tweet responsible, which hopefully clears things up nicely:
What does @Cosmopolitka tweet about? 23.5% of tweets contain one or more of the terms shown in this chart; tweets related to Ukraine, Crimea, Russian, and Putin are particularly prominent.
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