Meet @JoJo4Fitness1, @JoJo4Fitness2, @JoJo4Fitness3, @JoJo4Fitness4, @JoJo4Fitness5, and @JoJo4Fitness6, a sextet of similar-looking Twitter accounts that hail from St. Louis, MO, home of the famous Golden Gate Bridge. #YouHadOneJob
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The six JoJo4Fitness<X> accounts are all newsbots, presently automated via dlvr(dot)it. All were created between September and December 2011 and have liked at most two tweets. They vary in volume and schedule (a bit surprising given their other similarities.)
They also vary in content - each bot pushes a different site or sites:
@JoJo4Fitness1 - HuffPo, NY Times
@JoJo4Fitness2 - The Guardian
@JoJo4Fitness3 - Fox News
@JoJo4Fitness4 - NBC, MO Health Dept
@JoJo4Fitness5 - Daily Mail
@JoJo4Fitness6 - India Times
@JoJo4Fitness1 - HuffPo, NY Times
@JoJo4Fitness2 - The Guardian
@JoJo4Fitness3 - Fox News
@JoJo4Fitness4 - NBC, MO Health Dept
@JoJo4Fitness5 - Daily Mail
@JoJo4Fitness6 - India Times
This botnet's current incarnation as a newsbot variety pack began in March 2020, but is not its first rodeo. It was also active in 2011-2013, sending automated tweets via a variety of apps. What did it tweet prior to its six year nap?
Answer: the original incarnation of this botnet appears to have been focused on work-at-home spam. Interestingly, all the accounts have been renamed, some of them multiple times.
