What's up with these identical tweets sent via TweetDeck?
(Note: duplicate tweets embedding YouTube videos are sometimes the result of the title of the YouTube video being copied into the tweet text, but that's not the case here.)
cc: @ZellaQuixote
(Note: duplicate tweets embedding YouTube videos are sometimes the result of the title of the YouTube video being copied into the tweet text, but that's not the case here.)
cc: @ZellaQuixote
Answer: the duplicate TweetDeck tweets are the work of a Spanish-language botnet, consisting of 10 accounts created in 11 minutes on August 22nd, 2020. All ten accounts have virtually identical schedules.
At present, all of these accounts tweet exclusively via TweetDeck, although prior to mid-January they also used Twitter for Android. While they could be human-operated given the software used, we suspect automation due to the identical schedules (and repetition, as we'll see).
These accounts do two things: post original tweets and reply to other accounts' tweets. Their original tweets are extremely repetitive, with many having been tweeted multiple times by all 10 accounts. (As always, the Google translations should be taken with a grain of salt.)
The accounts in this network mostly reply to Mexican political and media accounts. The replies are repetitive, although substantially less so than the network's original tweets, with no reply being repeated verbatim by more than 4 of the accounts in the network.
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