Oh look, it's yet another dodgy website selling fake followers and likes for a variety of social media platforms. #ThingsThatAreNotWorthPayingFor
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
This follower sales website, cryptolikez(dot)com, has an associated Twitter account by the name of @cryptolikez (permanent 1494042375529938946). Almost all of @cryptolikez's 41K followers are accounts created between March and June 2022 that followed @cryptolikez en masse.
The batch-created accounts following @cryptolikez are part of an astroturf botnet consisting of (at least) 243586 accounts created between January and July 2022. All of the tweets posted by this botnet were (allegedly) tweeted via the Twitter Web App.
Who do the accounts in this botnet follow? A mix of English and Chinese-language cryptocurrency/NFT accounts, many of which gained tens of thousands of followers from the botnet and appear to have few or no real followers.
The followers from the botnet show up as horizontal streaks (highlighted in red) on follow order by creation date plots of the accounts they follow.
More on follow order by creation date plots here:
More on follow order by creation date plots here:
https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1408589182944124934
The accounts in this botnet tweet, retweet, and quote tweet. Their tweets/quote tweets are highly repetitive, with the same text duplicated verbatim by hundreds or thousands of accounts. As with the accounts they follow, the accounts they retweet are mostly crypto/NFT accounts.
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