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catbyte

(34,377 posts) Tue Jul 3, 2018, 10:01 PM Jul 2018

Interesting data re: so-called #WalkAway movement (Democrats abandoning the party)

Looks like more Russian bot bullshit happening on the Internet. What a shocker.

Link to tweet

Are the #WalkAway tweets truly from Democrats who recently abandoned the party? To test this, let's compare the hashtags used in recent tweets from the #WalkAway accounts with their tweets from years past.

This chart shows the most frequently used hashtags in a random sample of 2277 #WalkAway accounts both before and after January 2018 (109K tweets from each time period were used.) Long story short, it doesn't look like these accounts were ever liberal.

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Interesting data re: so-called #WalkAway movement (Democrats abandoning the party) (Original Post) catbyte Jul 2018 OP

My question is why doesn't twitter change their software to detect these bots and stop them? kimbutgar Jul 2018 #1

$$$$$$$. nt Blue_true Jul 2018 #4

May it be wingnut wishful thinking UTUSN Jul 2018 #2

Found this "Botsentinel" site via a great researcher, SpicyFiles, a couple days ago - I read Leghorn21 Jul 2018 #3

kimbutgar

(21,137 posts)

1. My question is why doesn't twitter change their software to detect these bots and stop them?

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Tue Jul 3, 2018, 10:05 PM

Jul 2018

I hate twitter.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

4. $$$$$$$. nt

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 3, 2018, 10:23 PM

Jul 2018

UTUSN

(70,686 posts)

2. May it be wingnut wishful thinking

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Tue Jul 3, 2018, 10:10 PM

Jul 2018

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)

3. Found this "Botsentinel" site via a great researcher, SpicyFiles, a couple days ago - I read

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Tue Jul 3, 2018, 10:19 PM

Jul 2018

mass quantities of tweets, but do not tweet myself, so I know zip about spotting/blocking bots...but this is a fascinating study in how tweets are fashioned (“I am a lesbian Latino who voted Dem all my life, but now I am walkingaway because blah blah”)

At any rate, this particular MASSIVE MOVEMENT to “walk away” was DOA before it even had a chance to blow up the innerwebz!!:

https://botsentinel.com/tweet-archive/hashtag/WalkAway?p=2

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