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Attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya of Trump Tower meeting fame has apparently developed a fan club in the form of Twitter accounts with no followers who love to sing her praises to a variety of celebrity accounts. @BillBrowder
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Over the past three days, 332 accounts with zero followers, zero followees, and zero likes have posted English tweets mentioning Veselnitskaya. They were created in batches starting Feb 2019; early ones have Russian names, switching to English May 13th. None have over 200 tweets.
Many (possibly all) of the accounts use profile pics "borrowed" from elsewhere on the Internet. We had a great deal of trouble reverse-searching them on Google, but curiously they came up quite readily on Russian search engine Yandex.
What do these accounts tweet about? Veselnitskaya, Veselnitskaya, and more Veselnitskaya. They don't show much creativity, either - the same tweets are repeated hundreds of times across the accounts in the network, strongly suggesting automation at work.
Finally, who do these 332 accounts reply to with their pro-Veselnitskaya missives? A mix of celebrities, journalists, and pop culture accounts, by and large. One 2020 US presidential candidate does make the top 30: @TulsiGabbard.
The 31ist-60th most frequently replied to accounts bring some other interesting names into the mix: a second 2020 candidate (@PeteButtigieg), two Democratic MoCs (@SpeakerPelosi, @AOC), and @Billbrowder (among others.)
