Here's a self of oddly similar new(ish) accounts. Each uses the same image for both banner and avataer, each has an account name ending in two digits, and each was created in 2020. #WednesdayWisdom
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These accounts are part of a botnet, which consists of (at least) 65 accounts total. All are automated via dlvr(dot)it, with occasional organic retweets. The volume of tweets produced by the network has steadily ramped up as the operator(s) continue to create more accounts.
Each account in this network has one or more hashtags in its profile. There's a lot of repetition; only 13 hashtags are used across the profiles of all 65 accounts, and many accounts use more than one hashtag.
What do these bots actually do? Almost all of their content is links to a variety of news sites and blogs. Other than Time and WSJ, most sites are only linked by 2 or 3 of the accounts in the network.
(Yes, there are multiple typos in the first tweet. Still don't want an edit button.)
