Thread by @conspirator0

Here's a look at a spam network that posts image tweets with identical text containing the hashtag #Accelerationism. This network's interests include the "Need for Speed" video game franchise and widespread power grid failures.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

This network consists of 39 accounts created between January 2022 and March 2023 that tweet exclusively via the Twitter Web App. Their content is a mix of tweets, replies, and retweets. (Most of the retweets are of popular news and sports accounts.)

Most of this network's content is repetitive tweets containing the hashtag #Accelerationism. The repetitive tweets are generally on one of two topics:

• the "Need for Speed" video game franchise
• failures of the U.S. power grid (particularly in California)

The network's #Accelerationism tweets contain images, and as with the text, the images are repeated over and over. The "Need for Speed" tweets contain images of cars (both real and video game screenshots), while the power grid tweets feature pictures of darkened cities.

This network also occasionally replies to tweets, most of which are from suspended accounts. Many of these replies contain criticism of recently-arrested billionaire and Steve Bannon associate Guo Wengui.

Do the accounts in this network use plagiarized profile photos? You'll be completely unsurprised to learn that they totally do (at least, the accounts that use photographs as their avatars). Google and TinEye were both reasonable effective at tracking down these images.

This is not the first time we've encountered a spam network spamming the #Accelerationism hashtag. Some previous threads:

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1450970919694966793

https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1521948597280980998

Here's a paste of the permanent IDs of the 39 accounts in the network:
pastebin.com/DbbUHidt