Twitter Bot and Troll Twitter Accounts Have Usernames that end in 8 Random Digits Very interesting Data Analysis on Twitter

A Data Scientist (@conspirator0) did some deep dives on data investigation of patterns in Twitter Troll accounts. What he discovered is rather fascinating:

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Characteristics Of Fake Twitter Followers

  • We studied a Twitter Handle of a Uttar Pradesh Minister (name Withheld ) who initially said that the twitter account would be used for solving public issues.
  • When the real handles tweeting for help ,did not get any response , we did a small study on that handle’s behavior.

These are the Characteristics we found :

  1. More than 40% handles had not tweeted more than 30 tweets in their age.
  2. More than 85% handles had a low tweet counts.Perhaps they tried Twitter and gave it up?
  3. Just 4.8% handles seems active on Twitter . Shocking stats.

Coming on Followers,what we discovered is rather fascinating:

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  • The above image reveals that the pattern which was used during Brexit and US Elections too.
  • NAME and 8 digit random number for creating the Twitter Handles
  • Similar patterns were noticed in this Minister’s Handle too.
  • A random Study out of approx 3200 Handles following. we found more than 1734 handles having the pattern as described by @conspirator0
  • Most of the handles were made between May 2017 till Spet 2017.
  • Replies by the Ministry handles were also mostly to the Bots and Fake handles.

Employees At Twitter And What They Do

  • The profile description of these bots / Fake / Troll handles are also similar
  • “Politicis and Govt News”
  • Hope the Ministry takes notice of the issue and reverts back to genuine #TwitterSeva for public of Uttar Pradesh
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