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While looking into something mostly unrelated, we encountered a group of accounts making a rather forward emoji-and-large-number laden offer. Should we allow this network to blow our accounts? cc: @ZellaQuixotepic.twitter.com/yDo38UCTvT
We searched for original tweets (i.e. not retweets) containing the phrase "allow me to blow your account" accompanied by emoji and multiple numbers. We found 216 accounts that posted tweets of this kind in the last ten days.pic.twitter.com/B4ZBxp9CJC
Unlike many of the networks we've studied, these accounts weren't created in batches - they've popped up slowly over the past nine and a half years. The majority (151 of 216, or 70%) theoretically tweet via the Twitter Android app (which doesn't rule out automation.)pic.twitter.com/RKa9YXmN0s
The accounts definitely form a network - 172 of the 216 accounts retweet each other's "allow me to blow your account" tweets, and many of the accounts retweet several dozen of the others (hence the dense and difficult-to-read center cluster in the figure.)pic.twitter.com/3OTqXt19SR
Do you think automation is used to get numbers this high this quickly? SAM does figure fairly prominently in the network.pic.twitter.com/F0YCsowy7N
I run into spam like this pretty often. Twitter finding it automatically and immediately ought to be easy to implement.
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