There are millions of Twitter bots, most of them used for spam, follower scams etc. If you're looking for a fun and relatively easy project, try to map one such botnet, like @r0zetta did here https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2018/03/16/marketing-dirty-tinder-on-twitter/ …
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Five years ago,
@bartblaze and I did something similar: start with a few accounts, then use Twitter's API to find similar accounts. We thus help Twitter take down ~50k bots https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2013/09/tens-thousands-fake-twitter-accounts-passed-and-sold-followers/ …2 replies 3 retweets 7 likesShow this thread
Replying to @martijn_grooten @r0zetta
Curious how this already is 5 years ago.
2:27 PM - 19 Mar 2018
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