#FlagsOutForFlynn (accompanied by #InItTogether) trended yesterday (May 1, 2020) due to a barrage of tweets that began at 2:17 PM Pacific Time. Although very little of the traffic appears to be automated, the sudden spike sure looks coordinated. What happened?
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
Answer: the May 1st #FlagsOutForFlynn/#InItTogether spam was announced the previous day by #QAnon account @elenochle. The announcement received thousands of retweets and was also copied numerous times. Does "Operation #InItTogether ROUND 6" mean there were previous tweetstorms?
Yes indeed. Round 5, for example, took place on 4/24 and consisted of spamming an armed Pepe The Frog meme accompanied by the hashtags #InItTogether and @WWG1WGA. Once again, the campaign was announced by @elenochle. The presence of Japanese Q accounts is interesting. #AltWankers
A total of six #InItTogether #QAnon spam campaigns have taken place thus far, the first on March 24th, 2020. Unsurprisingly, they result in a lot of duplicate tweets. The apparent organizer, @elenochle, has helpfully posted summaries and analytics following each one. #QAnonsense
The #InItTogether activity is reminiscent of other coordinated #QAnon spam campaigns we've studied. A couple of examples:
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#OpMayflower2018:
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Looks like folks over on 4chan enjoyed the #QAnon/Flynn spamstorm. . .
