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The botnet documented in this thread isn't the only one that draws on quotes (famous or otherwise) as a source of repetitive content. Are there other networks spamming the same cloned content?
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@ZellaQuixote Unsurprisingly, the answer is yes. We found a set of accounts spamming links to 40billion(dot)com alongside this Rosa Parks quote (among others.) The website describes itself as "the fastest-growing network of entrepreneurs and crowdfunders." 
@ZellaQuixote We found 16 accounts tweeting links to 40billion(dot)com 24-7 via apps with names matching the account name. 13 were created on the same day; interestingly, the site's "official" account (@40Billioncom) is part of this batch, and not the first account made.
@ZellaQuixote @40Billioncom These bots primarily focus on promoting the 40billion(dot)com website, but they do occasionally tweet links to other commercial/promotional/crowdfunding/payment sites as well. Actual news links are rare.
@ZellaQuixote @40Billioncom Do these 16 bots repeat tweets? Oh yes they do - in the last three weeks alone they've tweeted dozens of tweets over a hundred times each, and three of them over a thousand. The highly repeated tweets consist of advertising messages rather than inspirational quotes.
@ZellaQuixote @40Billioncom With the exception of @40Billioncom, these accounts portray themselves as individual "affiliate marketers" with a photo of the supposed marketer as profile pic. The photos, however, appear to have been harvested from news stories.
