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4 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Oh look, more pornbots. At least the naming scheme is straightforward this time. #FridayFeeling #Spamtastic

cc: @ZellaQuixote
This pornbot network consists of 653 accounts with names beginning with "porn_click_" and ending with numbers, mostly created in batches at various points in 2020. They (allegedly) all tweeted via the Twitter website until mid-September 2020, when they swapped to TweetDeck.
The "videos" in these pornbots' tweets aren't actually videos. They're redirected links to obscure porn websites disguised as videos through the use of thumbnail images with fake "play" buttons. We suspect the links are unsafe and do not recommend clicking them.
These accounts tweet the same text repeatedly, accompanied by either the aforementioned links disguised as videos or tweets repeating the account name over and over and an image containing the text "click my videos profile".

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5 Dec
What's up with these accounts retweeting giveaway tweets using apps with names like "Twitter for HUAWEI Y9a"? #SaturdaySpam

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Unsurprisingly, they're part of a botnet, consisting of (at least) 19 accounts that use custom apps with names of the form "Twitter for HUAWEI<xxxx>", and occasionally "Twitter for Android6" (not the real Twitter Android phone app). Most were created in June or October 2020. ImageImage
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2 Dec
Attorney @SidneyPowell1, known for representing Michael Flynn, filing multifarious election-related lawsuits, and overuse of the word "Kraken", has accumulated an impressive 1139718 Twitter followers, more than half of them since election day. We took a look.

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29 Nov
Meet @DianaWi59797083, a newly-created pro-Trump account that can't seem to decide whether its name is Blake or Diana. It probably doesn't matter, since it's using a plagiarized profile pic that's been floating around the internet for years. #YouHadOneJob

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Compounding the hilarity, the first account to retweet @DianaWi59797083 is @JasonMAGA4ever, an account created a couple weeks ago. In what is doubtless a total coincidence, @JasonMAGA4ever is also using a stolen profile photo.
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29 Nov
What's with all these similarly-named accounts retweeting this @globaltimesnews tweet? #SundaySpam

cc: @ZellaQuixote
Answer: a few recent @globaltimesnews tweets have been amplified by two distinct groups of bots. (It's possible that they are part of the same network, but we can't prove this, so we treated them as two separate botnets for the sake of this analysis.) #ATaleOfTwoBotnets
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28 Nov
How did this video get 8.5K views despite the tweets having no retweets or likes and the accounts having no followers?

cc: @ZellaQuixote
Answer: the video, originally tweeted by @CindyScarbrou17, has been embedded in 1353 tweets from 1140 different accounts. Although none of the individual tweets got much attention, the video racked up a decent view count due to the the sheer number of tweets containing it.
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27 Nov
Can one use search engines to find Twitter accounts with GAN-generated profile pics? #ThanksgivingShenaniGANs

(GAN = "generative adversarial network", the AI technology behind websites like thispersondoesnotexist.com)

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It turns out that when one reverse image searches a GAN-generated face pic, some of the results are other GAN-generated face pics. We used Yandex, as it was more effective than Google and is easier to automate. (This doesn't work with TinEye, which only finds exact matches.)
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