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Lijian Zhao 赵立坚
@zlj517
Shocked by murder of Afghan civilians & prisoners by Australian soldiers. We strongly condemn such acts, &call for holding them accountable. pic.twitter.com/GYOaucoL5D
2020-11-30 10:02:24
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AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
Analyst @ASPI_org @ASPI_CTS Cyber, tech, intelligence, data science & security
AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
After @arielbogle started seeing multiple accounts being created on the day Lijian Zhao posted the provoking tweet just to interact with the tweet, we took a deeper dive twitter.com/arielbogle/sta…
2020-12-02 10:59:39
AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
As of 12:45PM 2nd December 2020, Lijian Zhao's tweet has over 18K replies, 15K retweets (including quoted retweets) and 54K likes.
2020-12-02 10:59:40
AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
.@Timothyjgraham collected 10,059 replies to Zhao's tweet and noticed 8% of accounts were created on 30 November 2020 twitter.com/Timothyjgraham…
2020-12-02 10:59:40
Tim Graham 🌻
@timothyjgraham
OK, I've collected as many replies to @zlj517's tweet as I could (10,059 replies sent by 8,605 accounts). @arielbogle spotted newborn accounts jumping onto the reply bandwagon, and this diagram provides further evidence 😮 (thread below) pic.twitter.com/WyPEextJdZ
2020-12-01 09:25:39
AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
We looked at samples of 606 accounts retweeting and 349 accounts liking the tweet saw similar distributions showing a spike of account creations on 30 November and 1 December 2020 pic.twitter.com/9XCKhYS8fS
2020-12-02 10:59:41
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AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
Looking at our sample of accounts liking the tweet, over 35% of accounts had zero followers pic.twitter.com/aVZsyNC6JM
2020-12-02 10:59:44
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AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
These 'liker' accounts also tended to follow other Chinese diplomatic accounts, with Zhao's account followed by everyone who liked the tweet. Other US leaders, public figures and English media outlets were also followed. pic.twitter.com/mNpzpSJdMk
2020-12-02 10:59:46
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AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
Accounts created recently tended to only have a few accounts they followed. For example: pic.twitter.com/LcBm4ImyZu
2020-12-02 10:59:49
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AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
A plot of the follower network of these accounts showed that these accounts tended to follow the same major accounts. You would expect more overlap and a more diverse range of accounts being followed. pic.twitter.com/Y4CqKEvTtW
2020-12-02 10:59:51
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AlbertYZhang
@AlbertYZhang
Manually inspecting some of the accounts revealed many commercial and bot-like accounts that were tweeting porn and other spammy content. In addition, some accounts had only recently begun tweeting again after a long hiatus.
2020-12-02 10:59:51
Jordan Schneider
@jordanschnyc
@AlbertYZhang @nickolas_clarke lol not surprised in the slightest. Albert not sure how much time you've spent in the old twitter dataset but this seems like the same playbook + a little opportunism chinatalk.substack.com/p/chinas-hopel…
2020-12-03 08:07:13
Tim Graham 🌻
@timothyjgraham
@arc_gov_au DECRA Fellow ~ A/Prof at @QUTSchoolOfComm & @qutdmrc. Researching propaganda, mis/disinformation, platforms, social bots. Views my own.
Tim Graham 🌻
@timothyjgraham
Ping @dspray - DM me if you'd like tweet IDs and code etc!
2020-12-01 09:27:57
Tim Graham 🌻
@timothyjgraham
OK, I've collected as many replies to @zlj517's tweet as I could (10,059 replies sent by 8,605 accounts). @arielbogle spotted newborn accounts jumping onto the reply bandwagon, and this diagram provides further evidence 😮 (thread below) pic.twitter.com/WyPEextJdZ
2020-12-01 09:25:39
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Tim Graham 🌻
@timothyjgraham
Here's a chart of accounts created in 2020 - 8% of these were *literally born yesterday* (n=212 accounts) pic.twitter.com/S60M5DSulI
2020-12-01 09:25:40
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Tim Graham 🌻
@timothyjgraham
The chart below shows the number of tweets by user location*. Darker colours mean the accounts were created more recently. People's Republic of China (also "中华人民共和国") has the most tweets from accounts created in 2020. *self-reported location; caveat emptor pic.twitter.com/ZyBqniF02a
2020-12-01 09:25:41
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Tim Graham 🌻
@timothyjgraham
So what do we find overall? - Recently created accounts are flooding the zone by replying to @zlj517's tweet - China has the most newborn accounts, based on the evidence available - Accounts from Australia are most actively replying to this tweet
2020-12-01 09:25:42
Damien Spry
@dspray
@Timothyjgraham This is brilliant! Permission to use and cite in a presso for next week? And this would sit nicely in an article I’m writing for submission in January if you are interested in a byline?
2020-12-01 11:30:59
Luke van O
@LukevanO
@Timothyjgraham @dspray Extraordinary analysis mate, well done
2020-12-01 11:44:52