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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. 
will update my blog with these images in awhile: medium.com/@erin_gallaghe…
I isolated the spammers and made a user-to-hashtag graph of the trends they targeted. This shows 2741 tweets sent by 38 accounts. 37 of the accounts used @IFTTT and one used Twitter Web App (a now suspended account called ____6HH0). Spam was ~16% of my dataset of 17,049 tweets.
Entirely possible there are other accounts which did not use IFTTT that I missed. These 38 accounts were just the most obvious spammers.
@marcowenjones is doing analysis on a much larger dataset so follow his updates too:
@marcowenjones is doing analysis on a much larger dataset so follow his updates too:
the blue cluster closeup
