Thread by @conspirator0

In an interesting twist, @TwitterSafety's latest takedown announcement was greeted with a barrage of replies and quote tweets containing the hashtag #ArmenianGovernmentTrolls (and frequently no other text).

cc: @ZellaQuixote

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1364259277565755395

We downloaded tweets (excluding retweets) containing #ArmenianGovernmentTrolls, yielding 310 tweets from 204 accounts. The hashtag appears to have been started today by @FasliNabiyev shortly after @TwitterSafety's announcement.

The accounts tweeting #ArmenianGovernmentTrolls are disproportionately new accounts, with more than half of them having been created in July 2020 or later. 184 of 204 are accounts that previously spammed another hashtag we studied, #DontBelieveArmenia.

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1313590437266026501

All but 4 of the 310 tweets containing #ArmenianGovernmentTrolls are replies or quote tweets, mostly to/of @TwitterSafety's takedown announcement regarding Armenia, Iran, and Russia-linked networks. A @Reuters tweet about the same takedown was also targeted with the hashtag.

This is not the first time the accounts tweeting #ArmenianGovernmentTrolls have tweeted identical tweets. There are at least 24 tweets that have been duplicated verbatim by at least 50 of them, with the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan being pretty much the only topic.

Last but not least, here are the 30 hashtags most frequently tweeted by this group of accounts. As with the repeated tweets, they're pretty much all pro-Azerbaijan/anti-Armenia hashtags related to the conflict between the two aforementioned nations.