Just spent the last 20 minutes crawling through the MAGA/Hannity/Keurig accounts. My non-scientific opinion: 9 out of 10 of them are bots of some kind
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They have all the hallmarks: feeds are nearly 100% RTs that all play on an endless loop, spam tweets that repeat over & over at different accounts, MAGA word salad bios
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There are a handful of real humans in the mix that generate & drive most of the content and the bots just amplify the same stuff in different sequences
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This account is Hannity's pet project - it is sort of the central HQ collecting & distributing the contentpic.twitter.com/pQAY0StWRi
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If you want to dive into it yourself because you hate yourself, launch out of that account's feed
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Kilgore Trout Retweeted
based on what it looks like there is no reason to think this isn't an entirely fake phenomenon which leads to some very weird questions https://twitter.com/hrothgar1000/status/929924796732895232 …
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The upshot: I would not run around thinking thousands of people are smashing coffee makers because they're not. It's a couple dozen morons & a bot network.
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Dumbest Turing Test ever
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