Meet @BlancaMatos13, a four-week old Twitter account with a penchant for using stolen photos and a distaste for Ecuadorian presidential candidate Andrés Arauz. Unsurprisingly, this account is not a solo act.
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The @BlancaMatos13 account is part of a network of (at least) 63 accounts created in batches in March 2021 that all tweet almost exclusively via TweetDeck and have Ecuador as their profile location. Most operate on very similar schedules.
This network is likely using TweetDeck's scheduling feature, which disproportionately posts its tweets during the first second of the minute for which they are scheduled. (It's also possible that TweetDeck is being automated using other software with similar scheduling behavior).
The hashtags most frequently tweeted and retweeted by this network are mostly related to the politics of Ecuador, with a particular focus on criticizing presidential contender Andrés Arauz. "Arauz" is, in fact, the most frequently used non-trivial word in their tweets.
We already touched on the use of stolen pics briefly in the first tweet in this thread, but here are a few more examples of accounts in this network with stolen profile pics. Note that the originals have been cropped and in some cases flipped horizontally.
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