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Sometimes one has to seek out the spammy #Brexit bots, but sometimes the spammy Brexit bots make it easy by retweeting our threads. Meet @ChrisWill1337, an automated no-deal Brexit fan who wants you to know that the UK is going to leave the UK. #YouHadOneJob
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(tweet RT'd by @ChrisWill1337 from previous thread)
We downloaded the last 10 days worth of tweets from @ChrisWill1337, resulting in 13069 tweets (10043 retweets, 3026 original tweets.) This account's content is almost entirely automated, via two custom apps called "myCBot" and "myTweetPower".
How does @ChrisWill1337 choose what to retweet? Based on keywords, evidently: every tweet retweeted by @ChrisWil1337 in the last 10 days contains "motivation", "Brexit" (this is how our thread got picked up,) "inspiration", "quotes", "nodeal", "stocks", "fitness", or "economics".
The eight words in question turn up in nearly all of @ChrisWill1337's original tweets as well - overall, 99.9% of the account's tweets contain one or more of these terms. The hashtags used by the account reflect the same themes and many contain the same words.
What do @ChrisWill1337's original tweets look like? Very, very repetitive. In the last 10 days, @ChrisWill1337 has managed a total of 15 distinct original tweets across a total of 3026, several of which are repeated hundreds of times.
Like every other aspect of this repetitive account, the set of websites linked by @ChrisWill1337 lacks something in the way of variety. Most links are to the website associated with the account, topcreativelife(dot)com, with YouTube videos (largely about #Brexit) in second place.
