This pornbot network has grown substantially since we last looked at it. 111 of the accounts we previously found have been removed by Twitter, but 1421 new ones have joined the chorus, for a total of 1813 accounts.
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1303496458356826112
The output of this pornbot network continues to grow as more accounts are added to it, peaking at over 300 tweets per hour. Almost all tweets are (hypothetically, at least) posted via "Twitter Web Client", the old and no longer available version of the Twitter website.
The accounts in this pornbot network all have 8-character names composed of random numbers and lowercase letters. All have liked zero tweets and follow zero accounts. Tweets are in Japanese and encourage users to DM the bots.
As before, nearly all of the accounts in this pornbot network have anime/manga profile pics. We decided to show them in video form since a collage of 1813 images is a bit difficult to look at.
Another data point suggesting that these accounts are part of the same operation (not that we're in much doubt given the other similarities): almost all tweets from this botnet were processed by the same Twitter datacenter.
(Background on how to discern datacenter from tweet ID. We've noticed that sometime around the beginning of 2020 the set of datacenter IDs in use changed, so take that into account if you choose to make use of this technique yourself.)
https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1227063249440509952
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