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The botnet described in this thread served as inspiration to look around for other groups of bots linking to Amazon in a spammish manner. This thread documents a few; we may add to it from time to time.

cc: @ZellaQuixote
We downloaded three days worth of original tweets (non-retweets) linking to amazon(dot)com, resulting in 99208 tweets from 18607 accounts. 56962 of these (57.4%) appear to have been posted in an automated manner based on the source app/service used. A look at some networks. . .
First up: a group of 10 bots with names like <NFL team>Stuff (i.e., @BearsStuff, @VikingsStuff.) These accounts were created in the span of under an hour on Aug 29, 2016. They post all tweets via IFTTT. They link to NFL-themed merchandism on both Amazon and Ebay.
Hungry? Despite having food-themed names such as OnlineSandwich and @CakeBakergo, this group of 57 IFTTT bots appear to link entirely random merchandise, the vast majority of which is not dining-related. They sure do repeat themselves, though.
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