The #WalkAway hashtag, purportedly associated with a viral grassroots movement of frustrated Democrats abandoning the party, has generated considerable tweet volume. A couple brief observations based on a set of 200K tweets, which covers a span of just 18 hours. . . 
The 200K #WalkAway tweets in this sample came from 58475 accounts. Of these, 4440 (7.6%) use the default profile pic (somewhere in the neighborhood of 3% is average for datasets we examine). This doesn't mean all these accounts are bots, but does suggest bot activity.
Are the #WalkAway tweets truly from Democrats who recently abandoned the party? To test this, let's compare the hashtags used in recent tweets from the #WalkAway accounts with their tweets from years past.
This chart shows the most frequently used hashtags in a random sample of 2277 #WalkAway accounts both before and after January 2018 (109K tweets from each time period were used.) Long story short, it doesn't look like these accounts were ever liberal.
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