Did you know that real-time information is the most valuable commodity? There's a botnet for that. #WednesdayWisdom
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
@ZellaQuixote We found 18 accounts that tweeted "real-time information is the most valuable commodity" alongside a shortened link to fractalerts(dot)com. All 18 tweet round the clock via "Mobile Web (M2)", and 11 of 18 were created within half an hour of one another on Dec 2nd, 2011.
@ZellaQuixote The mission of this botnet appears to be to promote fractalerts(dot)com, a stock market prediction website. 81.4% of the network's external links are to this site; the rest are to a small set of news sites (CNBC, ZeroHedge, etc) whose official accounts get RT'd by the botnet.
@ZellaQuixote Unsurprisingly, this botnet is extremely repetitive - most tweets get tweeted repeatedly by all 18 accounts, although which tweets a given account posts on any given day seems somewhat random.
