What's the deal with these newly-made Twitter accounts firing off spammy replies in multiple languages? #TuesdayThoughts
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
Answer: they're part of a spam network of unknown purposes, consisting of 23 accounts that tweet on remarkably similar schedules via "Mobile Web (M2)" (early tweets were sent via "Twitter Web App"). 98.9% of the tweets posted by these accounts are replies.
Although these accounts reply mostly in English, a significant minority of their content is in a variety of other languages. The content is all over the map, ranging from random feel-good replies to coupon codes to comments on the present Armenia/Azerbaijan conflict.
This network frequently reuses replies on multiple accounts. The repeated tweets are almost all in English, although many of them are grammatically incorrect. (We're not sufficiently familiar with the other languages it uses to say whether the same is true of all its replies.)
Finally, who does this network reply to? A wide variety of accounts, encompassing corporations, musicians, doctors, cryptocurrency accounts, and seemingly random accounts with almost no followers. We're not sure what the goal of this network is, but plan to keep an eye on it.
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