What's up with these newly-created accounts with identical Bart Simpson avatars retweeting cryptocurrency tweets? #FridaySpam
cc: @ZellaQuixote
The self-similar Bart Simpson accounts are part of a retweet botnet consisting of 259 accounts created in May 2022. Most of the accounts have Turkish names, and many of their profile images are duplicates.
These accounts post almost all of their tweets via a variety of custom automation apps (4643/4644 tweets, 99.9%). The accounts use a total of 10 different custom apps, with each app being used by between 12 and 41 accounts.
This botnet's content is almost all retweets of cryptocurrency/NFT content. Every account in the network has retweeted @btc_magazin at least once.
The sole reply posted by the botnet (and only tweet from the network not posted with a custom app) is to @TradeWars_10.
The accounts in the botnet all follow many large cryptocurrency accounts (mostly the same accounts they retweet). Every one of the 259 accounts in the botnet follows both @btc_magazin and @TradeWars_10.
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