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We’re very pleased to have not lost any followers in The Twitter Bot Purge of 2018. We have 49,864 real human followers who actually give a damn about #campaignfinance, it would appear!

It’s a big election year! RT this, follow @alt_fec & help us crack 50k followers! 146 to go!
136 to go. That’s not a quick response from the Twitter community – that’s some bad math.
Shameless self-promotion dept.: 82 followers to go! We may be finding the upper limit on who cares about elections in this country. RT and follow @alt_fec and help us crack 50k.
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1/ So! 657 days and 50,000 followers into the effort, it's time to close up shop at @alt_fec. The midterms are done and it looks like the Republic just might survive this crisis. We have been called to #resist in other ways.

Two parting thoughts as we ride off into the sunset:
2/ • Our #campaignfinance laws have been fundamentally broken by #SCOTUS. It's not a matter of flipping #CitizensUnited – you have to reach back to Buckley v. Valeo (1976), the case that established that the government has no interest in a level playing field…
3/ and that preventing corruption is the only allowable reason to regulate #campaignfinance. This was a bad idea from the start, and has led to rotten results. Since #SCOTUS is unlikely to help out anytime soon, and amending the Constitution is unlikely to work, …
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A short meditation on white privilege.

Setting everything else aside for another moment, #Kavanaugh's testimony is a virtually perfect illustration of how ugly it looks to ignore your white privilege.

1/6
In dodging Sen. Whitehouse's questions about the 'Ralph Club,' Kavanaugh boasted about getting into Yale, and then Yale Law School. "Worked my tail off," he said.

2/6
Later, he said, "I got into Yale Law School. That’s the number one law school in the country. I had no connections there. I got there by busting my tail in college."

Surely he did.

3/6
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#trumptranscript 8/18/18, 9:06am, 1/5:

“For many years, I've been complaining about the horrible trade deals that our country was making. Our presidents and their representatives were just not treating our workers fairly.”

#trumptranscript 8/18/18, 9:06am, 2/5:

“They weren't, frankly, treating our companies fairly. Those days are over. Right now, we have companies pouring back into our country. We have fair deals. We have really fair deals, and we have many deals in the works.”
#trumptranscript 8/18/18, 9:06am, 3/5:

“Other countries that took advantage of us are no longer taking advantage of us.

Our jobs were lost, our taxes were lost, our businesses were lost. Those days are over. We're making great trade deals.”
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#CampaignFinance records from the 1990 effort showed that
#Pence then 31, had been using political DONATIONS to pay the MORTGAGE on his house, his personal CREDIT CARD bill, groceries, GOLF tournament
fees and CAR PAYMENTS
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#Pence gives #Putin brophile a new meaning and takes Russiaphilia to a whole new level. It gives Pence MOTIVE for IGNORING U.S. Congressman Cummings’ warning, last November, re #FLYNN.
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#Twitter: what is it good for? How do you get good at it? And what will we do when it's gone? Today in pulp I share a few insights I've gleaned from almost five years of running this account.

Its about to get all meta...
Most people's tweets are a stream of consciousness, and Twitter itself is a daily flow of 500 million of these across the surface of your phone. You are currently looking at the collective unconscious of the planet...
And like any examination of the unconscious you will see things on Twitter that fascinate you and things that disgust you. This is part of its attraction: the filters of discourse become permeable, allowing the unsayable to leak across.
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Hey @twobitidiot we checked which of the most influential accounts in crypto suffered from Twitter follower purge!

First, unsurprisingly, truly influential people were not affected much. Large drops seem to be more correlated with having a big number of followers in total.
.@fredwilson was the most affected among the top 300 from cryptoinfluencers.io. He lost -16987 followers, but this is merely 2.5% of his total follower count.

The drop was more significant for @joeykrug, who lost -9596, but that’s 40% of his current follower count.
It’s important to point out that the fact that one or the other account lost lots of followers does not mean that they ‘bought’ fake followers.

They may have been targeted by a bot farm for some reason and they can’t control that.
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#Twitter, bot ve aktif olmayan hesapları temizleme işlemini bugün tekrardan gerçekleştirdi. Birçok kişinin takipçi sayısında azalma var.
Aynı zamanda #Twitter zamanında askıya alınan ve takipçimiz olan kişilerin hesaplarını da tamamen ortadan kaldırıyor. Takipçi azalmasının nedeni bunlar. Bu çalışmanın devamı gelecekmiş.
#Twitter profilinizde kaç reel kaç bot hesap var bu site/uygulama üzerinden görebilirsiniz.

Uygulamayı kaldırmak için: Ayarlar > Uygulamalar > Erişim izni kaldır

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So for the first time in quite a while a newcomer hashtag had top spot on the #Hamilton68 Dashboard -- #walkaway. We remembered seeing this hashtag in the past few weeks but didnt really know what it was or follow up on it. #infosec #opsec dashboard.securingdemocracy.org
The background story on this hashtag #walkaway is a little strange & the number of bots, trolls, & fake testimonial promoting this hashtag is even stranger. Here's an example of a completely fake tweet highlighted by @daveweigel #opsec #infosec
We decided to look retrospectively at our own reverse engineered #Hamilton68 data. This is a wordcloud of 22893 tweets from our main Hamilton68 troll subset going from June 24th until now & #walkaway takes the #1 spot. #infosec #opsec
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1- Let’s talk about #porn, #sex and #Twitter
I don’t have a problem per se with porn (big fan of #Pornhub here) or any adult jobs as long as (I can’t stress this enough) is consented between two/more adults and nobody is forced and/or coerced into it against his or her will.
2-But #Twitter has a #porn problem.

(Don’t go harassing any of those accounts. There are thousands like them, and this is just for the purpose of making a point, not to single anybody out)

#TwitterPornProblem
3-Remember when we talked about #Tumblr ’s porn problem?

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The problem that I see here is not porn per se. Again, I have no problem with porn and/or the adult industry in its many forms and variations.
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