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What's up with all these IFTTT bots quoting Charlotte Brontë (and others)? #SaturdaySpam

cc: @ZellaQuixote
We found a botnet consisting of 21 accounts automated via IFTTT, all created on July 2nd, 2016, all with similar (and likely computer-generated) biographies, female profile pics, and links to one of two websites on their profiles.
This botnet draws its tweets from a repertoire of 1728 famous quotes, each tweeted at least once by every account in the network. We suspect the quotes aren't what these bots were deployed to promote, however. . .
Each account in the botnet has a link to a porn site on its profile: either zstreambox(dot)com (Chinese) or nickyferrari(dot)com (English). We aren't including the NSFW translation of the Chinese site, which would make it clear that it's porn.
Finally, do these bots use stolen profile pics? As is often the case with pornbot networks, the answer is yes. We had better luck with TinEye reverse image search than Google or Yandex for this group of accounts.
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