"Internet Water Army" (Wangluo shuijun 网络水军) is a group of internet ghostwriters that are paid to make posts on social media that contain specific content. Generally the group with post specific news, gossip or disinformation in a form of astroturfing to create or shift an
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Temporal activity patterns (replying / favoriting / retweeting) tweets quickly from the same accounts or for tweets containing the same content.
Twitter accounts that rotate their screen name and constantly change it over time.
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Yes. A lot of bots have gotten more sophisticated over time by randomizing the time they take to perform an automated action. Or they will run them during set times to mimic the behavior patterns of people -- it is amazing how sophisticated they are getting in their patterns.