In a few hours I pulled 3000+ tweets using China location tags #北京, #杭州 & #重庆. These tags are dens of spam.
Red lines indicate interactions between accounts (generally normal activity). Orange nodes are lone accounts, almost all of which spam the tags with dating ads.
Red lines indicate interactions between accounts (generally normal activity). Orange nodes are lone accounts, almost all of which spam the tags with dating ads.
https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1597291452786429952
A quick summary on the accounts created seen in the network graph above.
- 555 of the accounts were made in Nov
- 463 made in Oct
- many have zero or few followers
- many mention "high end silk" ads in different ways.
That's just out of the 3000 I collected. But so many more
- 555 of the accounts were made in Nov
- 463 made in Oct
- many have zero or few followers
- many mention "high end silk" ads in different ways.
That's just out of the 3000 I collected. But so many more
Here is what that spammy content looks like, over and over again.
For journalists or researchers looking up what's happening in China at specific locations. This is what they're wading through.
Happy to share the data with legitimate researchers online activity.
For journalists or researchers looking up what's happening in China at specific locations. This is what they're wading through.
Happy to share the data with legitimate researchers online activity.
I am happy to share this captured data with the @Policy team, if they are interested in clearing spam from the platform and allowing real issues to be discussed without content (which is in breach of platform policies) to obscure potential human rights issues. @elonmusk
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