Thread by @conspirator0

Our dear parody bot friend @SeanSpammity has received a number of replies (eleven, to be exact) from a two-month old #QAnon account, @xQanonx. What could possibly have caused this account to take Sean seriously? #TickTock #BOOM!

cc: @ZellaQuixote

Despite posting all of its tweets via the Twitter website (generally a sign that an account is human-operated, as automating the website is a no-no) @xQanonx is almost certainly a bot due to 24/7 activity (for 34 straight days at one point.)

How did @SeanSpammity get on @xQanonx's radar, and how does it choose which tweets/accounts to reply to? 5853 of the account's 5957 replies (99.9%) are to tweets containing the text "QAnon," making it a safe bet that it's programmed to reply to #QAnon tweets.

What does @xQanonx tweet? 42 #QAnon-related hashtags, in roughly equal measure - and very little else. We haven't seen this sort of distribution before; one likely explanation is that the bot chooses which of the hashtags to use in any given tweet at random.