For 3 days, I'm capturing the English tweets with the #GiletsJaunes hashtag. Based on 34K tweets, I made this cool retweet interaction graph.
Let see what we can find 🔽🔽🔽
Let see what we can find 🔽🔽🔽
First, an explanation of the graph is needed.
A node is a twitter profile.
A edge is a retweet of an English tweet with the hashtag #GiletsJaunes
The size of the node shows the level of interaction of the Twitter profile.
A node is a twitter profile.
A edge is a retweet of an English tweet with the hashtag #GiletsJaunes
The size of the node shows the level of interaction of the Twitter profile.
Yesterday, I started to analyse a smaller dataset and found some interesting profile
I decided to capture the English tweets with the French hashtag #GiletsJaunes for a reason. The goal is to see if foreigners want to influence the perception of the world on the yellow movement. They are tweeting the French hashtag and not the English hashtag #YellowVests...
...in order to be seen in the French results. They want to be seen by French people
It's time for a 1st example! This enormous orange node is located at the left of the graph. It shows that a lot of people retweeted his content but he his not interacting with the others
This profile is @PanosZahariadis and he posted this awesome photo! So nothing shady here, just something cool 😃
The second example is @AbrahamEkris. Check my yesterday thread for more details. Can you see the difference here? This guy is in the middle of the other nodes, he is very active on the suject
A close friend to the previous profile is @OnlineMagazin. Apparently, @Twitter is doing his job, this account is now suspended 😃
One of the biggest node is @BreakingNLive. This "Breaking News" twitter profile published 21 very popular tweets.
If you want to read the concerned tweets twitter.com/search?q=from%…
Example of a manipulation: Show 3 military trucks on the road, without context and say that war is coming...
Another example: @BasedPoland is, according to his bio, a Polish nationalist
This profile posted 4 popular tweets with the #GiletsJaunes hashtags twitter.com/search?q=from%…
Reminder: Nothing is free in this world, people used to serve their interests. Ask yourself, why a Polish nationalist is interested to buzz around the yellow vest movement?
5th profile: @eha_news is a Turkish "Breaking News" Twitter profile with 10K followers
This pseudo "news" account published 74 tweets with the #GiletsJaunes hashtag. The goal is clear: show to the world that there is a civil war in France...
6th profile: @sotiridi is a Greek freelancer journalist
He published 79 tweets with the #GiletsJaunes hashtag. Someone can tell me what a journalist is supposed to be?
7th profile: @ohboywhatashot is a Twitter account who like to comment the yellow vest movement
This guy is followed by @officialmcafee lol...
His bio is "90% of the people world wide are lovely people, who do not want war or terror." but with his 33 tweets he like to spread fake news and try to create terror...
8th profile: Say hi to Russia and @Syrian_Lion
He loves to spread fake news...
I can continue like this during hours. As you can see a lot of people (nationalists from everywhere, Trump supporters, ...) with different interests is seeing the yellow vest movement as an opportunity to create the chaos. They used to spread the same fake news or to exaggerate.
General announcement: If your goal is to create terror and chaos by spreading fake news, I will find you and expose you. Run fast my friends...
