Thank you all! I started to capture the following hashtags:
- #अनुराग_कश्यप_आतंकी_हैं
- #LEFTIST_ARE_TERRORISTS
- #LeftAttacksJNU
- #ShutDownJNU
#LeftKillingJNU
- #IndiaSupportsCAA
- #CAASupport
- #TukdeGangSpotted
- #JNUattack
- #ABVP_TERRORISTS
- #JNUTerrorAttack
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It's time to power off your bots folks or you will be exposedpic.twitter.com/G8ZZkmhAde
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What is possible with such tweet capture? - Detect if a trend is manipulated or not - Find the most influential accounts - The most active accounts (and so the bots) - Expose links between accounts, community of accounts - Most successful tweet https://twitter.com/danetag/status/1214265018243526656?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Danetag/status/1214265018243526656 …
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- Most shared url, photos, videos This is not magic. Get the identity of people behind the accounts is difficult and only Twitter can take them down. BUT These guys hate light. The misinformation is working when it’s done in the shadows. Expose how they are organized is (...)
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(...) more than needed and allows people to have a clear view of the on-going manipulation. The majority of the tweets you see on your timeline is boosted to push a propaganda, a political message. You should know it, know why and who is doing that.
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Update: 445239 tweets captured since yesterday. I will keep the capture running until tomorrow I think. The idea is to analyse 1M tweets
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Update: 638042 tweets captured. I stopped the capture. I will try to analyse the results today
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Update: I didn’t had time to do the analysis of the dataset yesterday and I will not have a computer for the next 3 days so the results will be published next weekpic.twitter.com/3C1jbn5ueL
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Update: I started the analysis yesterday night, it's not finished yet. The least we can say is that it's not complicated to find bots. I easily found 2 bots networks.pic.twitter.com/RcnifzMI78
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One of the best example in this network is
@AjayPandey__. Our friend joined Twitter in April 2011 and has 859500 tweets! Time for maths: 8 + 8 * 12 + 1 = 105 months 859500 / 105 = 8185 tweets per month 8185 / 30 = 272 tweets per day 272 / 24 = 11 per hourShow this thread -
In order to have this tweet rate you have to tweet 11 times (RT, comment or original tweet) every hour during almost 9 years...
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This 2nd bot network is full of fresh new accounts with a lot of tweets in their counterspic.twitter.com/olRifNrVwM
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My friend
@Ravi17121038 joined Twitter in November 2019. He tweeted 40100 times! 40100 / 73 days = 549 per day 549 / 24 = 22 tweets per hour You need to tweet 22 times per hour without sleeping during more than 2 monthsShow this thread -
As a comparaison, I made 18K in more than 2 years, which is already a lot
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Ravi aka
@Ravi78161144, has the same name and profile picture than my previous Ravi friend. He also joined Twitter in November 2019, what a coincidence! But our new bro is more active 59800 tweets...pic.twitter.com/0FSX79Lw2WShow this thread -
I called it "The triangle of love"
@ThulasiSaravan3 loves the tweets of@deepaksraja and@BhimaaSekar. The last two has a special relation, they RT each other and their own tweetspic.twitter.com/qHH77Y9JkrShow this thread -
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I will stop here for now, I will continue the analysis on this thread later
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A lot of people are asking: - The graphs are done with
@Graphistry. Big thanks to them for their very cool product - The tweets are captured with custom tools I made which are using the Twitter APIShow this thread -
If
@Twitter wanted to fight disinformation, they would open their firehose for free to researchers. But business is business, right?Show this thread -
I'm just a dreamer but
@TwitterSupport what about: - Giving a free access to the Twitter firehose to researchers - Create a dedicaded communication channel between Twitter and the researchers. They find something, they send it to you, you make the changesShow this thread -
- You create a community and can communicate on how you *really* fight disinformation - It cost you nothing What are you waiting? Really, this is a genuine question.
@jack I only see benefits for you and your company.Show this thread
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