Thread by @conspirator0

Meet @AppSame, a Conservative SuperPAC with 338418 followers, most of whom don't seem to be interested in retweeting its tweets. Since it attacks the legitimacy of other people's followers, its own follower growth is surely beyond reproach, right?

cc: @ZellaQuixote

Although @AppSame's last ~50K accounts look largely organic, the story is quite different early on, with lengthy streaks where it was followed by thousands or tens of thousands of accounts with zero likes or which follow more than 50 times as many accounts as they have followers.

200448 of @AppSame's 338418 followers (59.2%) followed it during these periods of inorganic growth. Helpfully, @AppSame was running a follower-tracking app back in its early days, confirming that it repeatedly gained tens of thousands of followers in a single day.

Unlike @AppSame's recent followers, which are mostly English-language #MAGA accounts, slightly over half (50.1%) of the followers @AppSame gained during spurts of inorganic growth have a primary language other than English, most frequently Russian or Spanish.

Footnote: we've seen many of @AppSame's bogus followers before. Here are threads documenting the networks they belong to:

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1291345714275061761

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1284141301932359681

Apparently @AppSame wasn't a big fan of this analysis. . .