Meet @AmaralBailey, a Twitter account created in August 2014 with a default profile pic and zero tweets. In a wacky plot twist, all of @AmaralBailey's followers and followees are also accounts created on August 27th 2014 with default profile pics and no tweets.
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
These accounts are part of a network of (at least) 2327 accounts with default profile pics and no tweets created on August 27th, 2014. Most have names that are first/last name combos, but there are a few outliers, such as @surprisingKathy, @gunWilliams, and @Clevelandexcite.
(Note: it's possible that this network is actually substantially larger than the 2327 accounts in our dataset. Since the accounts have no content and exploring the network takes a while, we stopped once we found a couple thousand accounts.)
The accounts in this network only follow other accounts in the network, and there's a pattern to which accounts they follow: each account follows between 12 and 53 of the accounts created within the seven minutes immediately prior to its own creation.
H/T @3r1nG, who found this rather bizarre network.
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