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Sometimes one wakes up on a #Caturday morning and finds that #TrumpFearsYang is trending.

cc: @ZellaQuixote
@ZellaQuixote We downloaded all tweets containing #TrumpFearsYang. Although the hashtag was first introduced on August 12th, it didn't start gaining traction until last night. Very little of the traffic looks automated, although some familiar "realtor" bots put in a guest appearance.
@ZellaQuixote (earlier thread on the realtor/taxicab bots which have been spammishly retweeting various 2020 Democratic candidate hashtags as well as #MoscowMitch)
@ZellaQuixote Here are the first 90 accounts to post original tweets containing #TrumpFearsYang. It looks like a few prior attempts were made to cause the hashtag to trend, and some of the accounts that got a lot of retweets once it finally did also participated in earlier pushes.
@ZellaQuixote How did #TrumpFearsYang trend? The traffic looks organic, with some openly discussed strategy in play - @yangganghub solicited suggestions of hashtags to trend yesterday (Sept 6) and received #TrumpFearsYang as a reply (17:51 PDT.)
@ZellaQuixote @yangganghub Shortly after that (19:30 PDT), @mang_spider posted the first #TrumpFearsYang tweet to get significant retweets. Helping to accelerate the trend, @UnknownVariable_ dug up and retweeted 40 #TrumpFearsYang tweets between 22:24 and 22:30.
@ZellaQuixote @yangganghub @mang_spider Subsequently, @AndrewYang noticed the #TrumpFearsYang hashtag and used it himself. Later on, discussion of attaching it to other hashtags (specifically #NHDems2020) to increase exposure ensues.
@ZellaQuixote @yangganghub @mang_spider @AndrewYang Retweet network for #TrumpFearsYang. The tightly-connected cluster in the center consists of accounts that all retweet each other's #TrumpFearsYang tweets; @AndrewYang's own account is somewhat separate as he only used the hashtag once and didn't retweet any tweets containing it.
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