Thread by @conspirator0

Meet @Sir_Max, a proudly automated member of the Oathkeepers with 610K tweets and 7824 followers at the time of this writing. Max's interests include @wikileaks, duplicated tweets, and more duplicated tweets.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

We analyzed @Sir_Max's tweets from January 1st, 2016 through the present day. Almost all tweets are automated via either IFTTT or Wordpress. It demonstrates some slightly more elaborate crossposting and tweet cloning behaviors than many of the bots we've seen. . .

8727 of 44094 tweets (19.8%) posted by @Sir_Max since the beginning of 2016 originate on Reddit's /r/wikileaks. From there they are copied to @Sir_Max's wordpress blog (which appears to be automated), and then copied again to the Twitter account.

Similarly, many of @Sir_Max's copied tweets pass through one or more intermediary accounts. In the example shown here, a #PJNET tweet from @LeahR77 was repeatedly copied by one IFTTT bot (@RaymondB_), and those copies in turn got cloned by @Sir_Max.

The content of @Sir_Max's feed reflects these behaviors; wikileaks turns up prominently in the text due to the /r/wikileaks content copied from Reddit, and #PJNET is the most frequently used hashtag despite @Sir_Max not using the PJNet app.

Belated correction - this image should've been included with this tweet rather than the screenshot shown.

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1123801841073045504