The seventh installment of the ongoing series of #InItTogether QAnon spam campaigns is underway. We're taking notes, of course. #FridayFeeling #QAnonsense #AltWankers
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They managed to (mostly) start at the correct time. 2124 accounts posted 7923 tweets containing both #InItTogether and #JusticeIsComing in the first ten minutes of the spam campaign, mostly via organic-looking sources.
Twenty minutes in, let's take a look at languages. The bulk of the tweets are English, but there's a noticeable Japanese presence as well; 509 tweets (3.9% of total) from 155 accounts (5.5% of total) thus far. Most of the "unknown" tweets consist of only the hashtags and a meme.
(we've seen Japanese accounts in #QAnon-related datasets before, example here)
Since we were aware in advance that the #InItTogether/#JusticeIsComing spam campaign was going to happen, we deployed some bait tweets on @IvankaFlynn2024 using both hashtags and an anti-QAnon meme. The Japanese QAnon accounts are now retweeting them.
40 minutes in, and over 20K #InItTogether/#JusticeIsComing tweets have now been launched. The spam is slowing down, however - down to 200-300 tweets per minute from an initial 800+.
In a hilarious (but perhaps not all that surprising) development, at least one of the Japanese QAnon accounts has now retweeted this thread.
Retweet network for today's #InItTogether/#JusticeIsComing QAnon spamfest. The main accounts cluster tightly because they've all been retweeting each other's tweets, driving up the volume.
Since things seem to have slowed down, we'll likely stop here for now. The Japanese-language presence, while a minority of the traffic, continues to be noticeable, with 1298 tweets from 274 accounts after 80 minutes (and they're still retweeting one of our bait tweets.)
(oops, forgot to include screenshot of the tweet in question)
