Thread by @conspirator0

If you're looking for tweets discussing half of a wanderer or spider and don't mind the utter absence of coherent sentences, this botnet will be right up your alley. #SundaySentenceFragments

cc: @ZellaQuixote

This botnet consists of 25 accounts, all created in October or November 2020. All of their biographies are lengthy resumes of seemingly random occupations, and all tweet exclusively via "Twitter Web Client" (the old and hypothetically unavailable version of the Twitter website).

Each account in this botnet has thus far activated exactly once, firing off 4-6 tweets over the span of a minute or two, and then going silent. The tweets themselves are (likely randomly generated) mashups of words, phrases, and sentence fragments rather than complete sentences.

Here are all the phrases and sentence fragments of at least two words in length that this botnet has used in more than one tweet (as well as a wordcloud). "One half", "wanderer", "spider", and "addict" are frequent inclusions.

As is frequently the case with the Twitter bot networks, these accounts use stolen profile pics, many of which have been previously used on other social media accounts. We found Yandex and Google more effective than TinEye for reverse searching this particular set of images.