As expected, Twitter is awash with election & party political trends & hashtags, many of which are - of course - carefully managed & artificially amplified.
Sometimes, oddities leap out unexpectedly.
Here's a couple, from the trending topic "Doctored"
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The trend is about the Tories using manipulated video to attack Labour.
Unsurprisingly, this offered scope for a clap-back by Labour-controlled accounts, and they obliged.
It wasn't massively amplified, but two accounts caught my eye from among the amplifiers.
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Why? Because they both had very high lifetime tweets/day volumes, and those volumes were very similar.
So, we're going to look at @/nooouch and @/charles68431225
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@/nooouch
Acct created 30/10/2016
Total tweets inc RTs+replies (1,101 days): 212,333
Mean # tweets/day (lifetime): 193
Follows 396 accts/followed by 2248 accts
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@/nooouch
3,233 tweets in 13 days since 23/10/2019
1,431 RTs (44%)
Mean # tweets/day was (inc.RTs), 138 (exc.RTs)
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Now for "charles" ...
@/charles68431225
Acct created 26/06/2019
Total tweets inc RTs+replies, (132 days): 25,169
Mean # tweets/day (lifetime): 191
Follows 1316 accts/followed by 1206 accts
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@/charles68431225
3,227 tweets in 18 days since 18/10/2019
2,783 RTs (86%)
Mean # tweets/day was 179 (inc.RTs), 24 (exc.RTs)
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