Thread by @conspirator0

Where do #QAnon devotees go to get caught up on the latest #QAnonsense these days? While the Q "drops" still get initially posted on shady sites such as 8chan, qmap(dot)pub is the hip site to visit to see all the Q mythology to date in one place.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

@ZellaQuixote We downloaded recent tweets linking to qmap(dot)pub, yielding 16441 tweets from 6269 accounts in the last 8 days. There are some bots in the mix, but we'll get back to that later, because there's a more interesting anomaly. . .

@ZellaQuixote Nearly a quarter (23.3%, to be precise) of recent tweets linking #QAnon website qmap(dot)pub are in Japanese, despite the site itself being an English-language site about a (mostly) US-centric conspiracy theory.

@ZellaQuixote Both the English and Japanese accounts linking to qmap(dot)pub predominantly use Q-related hashtags with the Japanese accounts throwing Michael Flynn into the mix with #QArmyJapanFlynn. Other than the Q site, the Japanese accounts have yet to embrace Western right-wing websites.

@ZellaQuixote We didn't find a ton of automated accounts linking to qmap(dot)pub (and they don't appear to constitute a single botnet), but some of the ones we did find are interesting. The Flynn-flavored Japanese #QAnon theme surfaces again with @QAJF_bot, for example.

@ZellaQuixote @QAJF_bot Next up, we have #Calexit bot @MonarchForCNP, which is (possibly unintentionally) retweeting spammy #QAnon propoganda tweets from @BobRoon12515016 due to the presence of the #FreeCalifornia hashtag in the latter account's recent tweets.

@ZellaQuixote @QAJF_bot @MonarchForCNP @BobRoon12515016 The tendency of #QAnon accounts to load their tweets with tons of hashtags yielded retweets from other non-QAnon bots as well. Examples:

@pythoncxde - #GiletsJaunes
@FlatEarthRT - flat + earth
@BrexitLalaland - #Brexit
@ResistOrganize - #Resist

@ZellaQuixote @QAJF_bot @MonarchForCNP @BobRoon12515016 @pythoncxde @FlatEarthRT @BrexitLalaland @ResistOrganize As tends to happen, some of the tweets in this thread discussing retweet bots have subsequently been retweeted by some of the same retweet bots. (1 #FreeCalifornia and 3 #GiletsJaunes bots, thus far.) . #WednesdayWisdom