When you're a spammer with something to share, you share it simultaneously on ten Twitter accounts that were created on the same day and tag the same people in every tweet. It's what you do. #Spamtastic #Propagandalicious
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These accounts are part of a network of (at least) 42 accounts created over a span of eight hours on July 10th, 2021. All have female names and profile pics, zero friends/followers, and have thus far tweeted exclusively via Twitter for Android.
The accounts in this network do three things: post repetitive tweets, retweet tweets, and like tweets. The repetitive tweets all contain links to articles/videos (mostly Xinjiang-related content from Chinese media/government sites), and most of them tag exactly two accounts.
This network has thus far amplified (retweeted/liked) tweets from five different accounts: @shaunrein, @xinjiangchannel, @chauchiwing, @PeoplesDailyapp, and @globaltimesnews. The most frequently amplified account, @shaunrein, recently deleted all tweets prior to July 28th 2021.
As is often the case with astroturf networks, these accounts use stolen profile pics. TinEye was more effective at finding other uses of these images than either Google or Yandex reverse image search.
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