joined the twitters recently, noticed that many of my posts attract "favorite'ers" who are honey pots. E.g.: - https://twitter.com/AudreySykestfm - https://twitter.com/EvelynHarri0pp - https://twitter.com/PenelopeRosap8 - https://twitter.com/AdalynEsteskul - https://twitter.com/PazhetnykhMiss - https://twitter.com/helensmithusacc - https://twitter.com/RubyFlemingdy5 - https://twitter.com/KaelynMorenm2g - https://twitter.com/PeytonKanee97 - https://twitter.com/LilyArnoldvkm maybe social research, or ... ? i guess they think i've got a type :P best regards, not interested codermange
On 07/19/2015 06:10 PM, coderman wrote:
I get these sorts of follows whenever I hashtag #NSA or use @FBI. I got a large number of them when I suggested the people who work at the NSA were traitors in need of execution. My 'follow-stalkers' are typically 'girls' posting various types of pron interspersed with tweets about a variety of subjects where I inevitably end up seeing the same tweets across the various accounts. Many of the links posted, when not to pron sites go to 'humorous photo gallery' sites, of which most seem to be hosted by... Wait for it, Cloudflare. I report the accounts as spam. I checked a couple of the links you posted and apparently they've already been reported and 'account suspended'. RR Ps. It tapers off until (see top of my comment. Rinse lather repeat)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 07/22/2015 09:59 AM, Razer wrote:
I get these sorts of follows whenever I hashtag #NSA or use @FBI. I got
It would be interested to use Twitter's back-end API to (automagickally) gather information on new follows and see what shakes out. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] [ZS] PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Eve was framed! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVr9VQAAoJED1np1pUQ8RkB68P/3KMuYbY00X+LgVJl+LYuAJN EEKs1LFDSGEmP6QnPsKJbPDUZMxvBG0TNHN3w8w5NlgpJXc6DhX3lwTqCFzlZThG c/I/x8D6XLWC5wg8FZj24gQNg+TLD3EfvNnWZ2z4YwcMQHNhzH+9V+RX55u2ZcMk 29+qBHFrNSDgGEceQRYMheSB85UBJ4yU7A2RmeQVTlAThwnqzPLgCznWcb2sC3O2 cQZhOxoySK3GzGWT/Jdrr6Qb5qKobkBtrDBdieqpNDWmjLr40I4ByLws/CBOPFBI dcil8CpV5tNQuAbiZBYOUiKE1qK34T0ubnJt2yc+lAv28tIfAoLviermthMUz+FT bZA+l7EGE3TELxwS5ngU7CCMz3YJIbIIHkKbt9QxsFb2ygErIKKa6loN+gY56SuM Wyup/a7N6TYuCgpKLuqwZU3wiP7oNqX0HTQjIPMytk++1uNWP4LWnyqPBOm+jyqm 8uXoLhhuWtOVvj59Qx6IWO2BDcAeZlhGjsa6WJKhiefNs2nnsQ7EiFiQ7jj6apKL vfnBX7cfTNVNgxH8rNxKTNJnzBsQC72bAjX/TlF22WhLuaNyhHecExFGHIK20fIf pfG6jRLGlX0QQ5UoMQBFZyulPICsc2qwWG01yxJUyVr7px9yEsQdeCoqXEWoOFYj vg74QqMgGzGK8ZK980G7 =NBlc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Dnia środa, 22 lipca 2015 09:59:14 Razer pisze:
This seems like something that might be worth documenting and datamining, maybe? -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
On 07/22/2015 03:01 PM, rysiek wrote:
I've thought about doing a more thorough correlation study. For all I know there are clues in it about the originators. For example. Some of the corelated tweets across accounts contained (anatomical) 'colon problem' tweets. Suppose some NSA analyst somewhere has "Irritable Bowel Syndrome", and they're telegraphing it subconsciously in their choice of tweets? RR
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 07/22/2015 03:01 PM, rysiek wrote:
This seems like something that might be worth documenting and datamining, maybe?
Somebody seems to be keeping an eye on this mailing list - I just had to ban a half-dozen that followed me within about a five minute span. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] [ZS] PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ One if by land, two if by sea, three if by interdimensional teleportation. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVsShaAAoJED1np1pUQ8RklLEP/1owvypGmh3gWaVcdPl84ewI k1+GJsUsaqW47gkN7lk6uCg/HFsnq0UJimm+3AQfqcbO8SeSIPY19U7A2lgzD26k SXBrLb7w1h1+zWDvlX89LI3VBw5jYfYP/6mV+sLq0PuA0heMVilkOrrdqxq04gg1 xBt+MEI0mJ0B0cQ5Xr0RcUAfARYsFNzmqnRVvfycjOKXfKbNdXx7skfy2Mf9mD5A F8K15H7yCQ38oiUF3rnBNzrX/JmNyvqIXC+fpqKAHGmtXMxW2IIHYWaxzle/OQ36 HL59T/uhQpcYL+KYl3QI1UkzwQ3EpNlibNbNMMgSCPLjOhtPfbPBYcXyE7UKtXx3 f55VnqDewkqx+nYIm6unsx/qByzm1K2+Hqk3JXF0icvk+n6P/b0oRBZVZZvFrBKF ohtTU/dPZ8hq48uOdApHSrwFoiUV5ozbatMaYFNGNNuLzOuSHGcUhNqML3s7V+Uu /z2vLXkBEJYinTifk6TmCcyTKlSOSgfg4oGKpVoICZp1Vhu/lTqeWIEuRFxTo5J4 i/YGtFcsm1wmfhd4X846xJCNcUdv+O5HF6biYGFuL5IpKNr+Q3bELJ+oDPgRFr8j D0zl7bseXAk1VjbrfyQaloWfhM/VA9uOBKx7l3dFFhegvQZif5FzJROCZkg6e9DW uF0ZdsQE7pKQKvqCIG1T =RveM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
If you look at people who have a large number of followers which their activity or identity wouldn't normally warrant, you will find that the synthetic accounts who follow them exhibit a lot of random retweeting and favoriting behavior. Many of the synthetic accounts also do double duty by posting spam links should anyone visit them. All speculation, but: There are people who offer paid follower, favoriting, and retweeting services. I suspect the operators include more bogus activity than paid activity on the synthetic accounts. The additional activity would muddy any third-party analysis. For example, it would make it harder for Twitter to spot bogus accounts. It would also be harder to know who's really paying for artificial activity versus who's been randomly selected (if Twitter even cares about such things). If the crap favoriting gets these accounts some non-synthetic followers or visits, they also become useful vehicles for those spam links. It's doubtful that Twitter worries as much about accounts that spam if people visit the account after a favorite and see a spam link, rather than the spammer revealing the spam to others with @mentions. On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 6:10 PM, coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
participants (5)
-
coderman -
Razer -
Reed Black -
rysiek -
The Doctor