Out of the 170k CCP accounts Twitter deleted, they published the data for 23.8k accounts. which I analyzed.
My take: they are not bots, but actual human beings reluctantly taking part in a troll factory.
In this thread, I'll cover the specifics that really stand out.
THREAD:
1. Tweet timings: The tweets from the CCP accounts almost exclusively tweet during "work hours" by Beijing Time.
89% of the tweets were between 7 AM and 5 PM.
For the control group of 58k tweets from 32 accounts in HK & TW, that number was 37%!
What it means: The average person is expected to tweet in their free time outside work hours. However, the CCP tweeters tweet almost exclusively during work-hours, which indicates that that is possibly their full-time job.