That Sunday Times Russian bot "study". Beyond using "is the language or location set to Russian" as a method for IDing covert Russian state actors, which has never seemed *terribly* convincing to me, there's something else that jumps out as a question. 1/5 The dataset is 20,000 election-related tweets over a four week period. But the article says there were "thousands" of accounts. So that's... 2 or 3 tweets a week? But (based on their previous work) a major signal the Swansea team use to ID "bots" is *high-volume* tweeting. 2/5