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Whilst searching #ICERaid tweets for potential bots, we stumbled upon an intriguing #resistance account: @Emily_Winters20, created July 8th 2019. "Emily's" picture has been making the rounds for considerably longer, though.
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96.8% of @Emily_Winters20's tweets are posted in brief tweetsorms via a custom app with the poetic symbolic name of "appforsnek." Although we can't rule out the account being part of a network, we didn't find any other accounts tweeting via this tool.
The automated tweets from @Emily_Winters20 are all retweets, and each tweetstorm seems focused on a specific hashtag/search term or list thereof. Most (possibly all) have trended recently, so this bot may select what to retweet based on current trending topics.
Another possible hypothesis: a human operator triggers each of @Emily_Winters20's tweetstorms. Under this scenario, the person running the bot feeds it a list of search terms, and the account in turn searches for and retweets a batch of tweets matching the search.
