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Erin Gallagher
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Hashtag visualizations of #ميدان_التحرير_الان - Fake Twitter accounts bombarded trending hashtags with automated spam while protests were breaking out on the ground in Egypt in what appears to be a deliberate campaign to disrupt the protests. medium.com/@erin_gallaghe…
The spam campaign is still active this morning. This tactic effectively disrupts the flow of real-time information online. Look at "latest tweets" for the trending topics right now in Egypt. Instead of relevant tweets, you'll find these repeaters flooding the hashtags with spam.
Found 4 more just now in the "latest tweets" for hashtag #انزل_انت_مش_لواحدك which is currently in the top trends for Egypt. All using @IFTTT to post spam.
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Trying various color palettes to highlight the spam... here's the user-to-hashtag network for 17,049 #ميدان_التحرير_الان tweets from Sept 21 until this afternoon. White background w/ labels & spammers highlighted in cyan and on gray w/o labels & green. They look like tumors.
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The botnet spamming Egyptian hashtags died a death thank you @IFTTT 🙌
Nope they're still going, I spoke too soon.

Hi @IFTTT here's some more for you to deactivate:

@chloepd93
@readdbioo15
@Hendy1874
@F556gjbsffhh
@nonokareemy231
@aboamjd2030
@Aprilca97438995
@StarrJesseh
@kingofqueen4
@JoeJokk
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