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Eric JN Ellason(CEO of SlickRockWeb, SEO guy and part time citizen journalist. I am a numbers cruncher, problem solver)

So finally got to the newest #Hamilton68 wordclouds. A few interesting things to note. First up the subset of #hamilton68 twitter troll accounts focused on US politics. This is 62k tweets from between Feb 27th through Mar 2nd.

These #Hamilton68 accounts were promoting #cpac2019, not surprisingly the controversy surrounding #IlhanOmar and a couple interesting smaller new hashtags #the200 and #themighty200 that I will discuss later in the thread. Also of note is the minimal attention to Tulsi Gabbard....(Gabbard was a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee until February 28, 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Elected in 2012, she is the first Samoan-American member and the first Hindu member of the United States Congress. Gabbard served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in a combat zone in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009. She previously served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004. When she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 21, Gabbard was the youngest woman to be elected to a U.S. state legislature.)

Eric

Looking at the #Hamilton68 subset of accounts focused on Russian geopolitics the conflict in Venezuela (#HandsOffVenezuela) was featured and new was the conflict between India and Pakistan. The #integrityinitiative continued to be a focus and again Tulsi was not that prominent.

Here our previous thread on the #integrityinitiative which is an international led initiative attempting to combat state sponsored disinformation. #infosec #disinfo

Here our previous thread on the #integrityinitiative which is an international led initiative attempting to combat state sponsored disinformation. #infosec #disinfo https://t.co/rvX1FMHU5c— Eric JN Ellason (@SlickRockWeb) March 6, 2019

Looking at set of related #Hamilton68 bot accounts that appear 2b used to amplify certain stories & support the more influential #Hamilton68 troll accounts ... again Tulsi Gabbard was nowhere to be found. We've mentioned before this set of bot accounts rarely push out hashtags.

Looking at another subset of #Hamilton68 accounts that again focus on US politics but have a higher degree of foreign #osint .. showed more focus on #Qanon related hashtags. Of note #trump2020. Ocasio-cortez (@AOC) & abortion were among the more prominent non-hashtags .. #disinfo

The final wordcloud is from our new set of accounts that weren't specifically in the original #Hamiton68 panel but have many of the same indicators & are considered alt-left accounts. Here Tulsi Gabbard shows up but not in any prominent way & no Tulsi campaign hashtags of note.

So this gets us back to the two new hashtags that started showing up at the end of February .. #the200 and #themighty200 as indicated by the red arrows in the #Hamilton68 subset of Twitter trolls focused on US politics. #disinfo #infosec #osint

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These 2 hashtags #the200 & #themighty200 relate to a Politico article that came out on Feb 20th. The authors discussed a set of 200 highly influential Twitter accounts they identified & believed 2b spreading #disinfo & targeting Dem presidential candidates........

NIKK............is this information saying Q...is 2 BILLION STRONG?????????

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These 2 hashtags #the200 & #themighty200 relate to a Politico article that came out on Feb 20th. The authors discussed a set of 200 highly influential Twitter accounts they identified & believed 2b spreading #disinfo & targeting Dem presidential candidateshttps://t.co/2jJ46NCnsR— Eric JN Ellason (@SlickRockWeb) March 6, 2019

The authors also stated "with signs that foreign state actors are driving at least some of the activity." The word "some" was taken 2 mean "all" by many who jumped 2 the defense of the 200 that were publicly named. We believe the vast majority of #the200 are infact real Americans.

Nevertheless about 11 of the 200 accounts in #themighty200 we found to also be part of the #Hamilton68 accounts. And at least two were recently suspended by Twitter for unspecified reasons @geowashaxe and @annaapp91838450 #disinfo #infosec #osint

According to our #Hamilton68 archive data @geowashaxe was suspended around January 26th, 2019 and @annaapp91838450 also in January. We would love to interview either of these accounts if anyone knows how to get in touch with them. Our previous thread.

According to our #Hamilton68 archive data @geowashaxe was suspended around January 26th, 2019 and @annaapp91838450 also in January. We would love to interview either of these accounts if anyone knows how to get in touch with them. Our previous thread https://t.co/k4ylZn5Gf8— Eric JN Ellason (@SlickRockWeb) March 6, 2019

Eric

Finally we had a colleague create a Gephi network map of 17k tweets for hashtag #themighty200 on Mar 4th. The purple blog at the top is essentially from one Twitter account that averages about 750 tweets / day & recently changed their twitter handle from @StandSuperyaya #osint

Our disclaimers for this thread. In the previous tweet the dominant account in that #themighty200 Gephi map is very likely a real American even though it tweets about 750 times/day and thus we obscured the handle on the map. #infosec #osint

Many of #the200 tweet hundreds of times a day through a custom group tweetdeck. However most are very likely real Americans. Nevertheless its clear from the #Hamilton68 data that foreign influencer accnts are promoting & amplifying these accounts & have been 4 many months #osint

The timeline of how #Hamilton68 accounts began 2 amplify the hashtags #the200 & #themighty200 is very interesting. The Politico article came out Feb 20th, @conspirator0 saw these hashtags appear around 22nd here (https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1100625234615504897 …) & #Hamilton68 accnts started the next day.,p>

The timeline of how #Hamilton68 accounts began 2 amplify the hashtags #the200 & #themighty200 is very interesting. The Politico article came out Feb 20th, @conspirator0 saw these hashtags appear around 22nd here (https://t.co/Eh9Y5BjHqf) & #Hamilton68 accnts started the next day— Eric JN Ellason (@SlickRockWeb) March 6, 2019

NIKK....throwing HIM IN as you will see why.

conspirador Norteno

The timeline of how #Hamilton68 accounts began 2 amplify the hashtags #the200 & #themighty200 is very interesting. The Politico article came out Feb 20th, @conspirator0 saw these hashtags appear around 22nd here (https://t.co/Eh9Y5BjHqf) & #Hamilton68 accnts started the next day— Eric JN Ellason (@SlickRockWeb) March 6, 2019

Speaking of #QAnon, it and related hashtags are quite popular amongst the accounts tweeting #The200/#TheMighty200. Strangely, #GreenNewDeal also shows up. Media sources linked are largely right-wing conspiracy sites. (Charts based on each account's most recent 200 tweets.)

Retweet network for #The200/#TheMighty200. One of the main nodes, @superyayadize, changed names very recently from @StandSuperyaya. This account was also one of the earliest to tweet either of the hashtags.

I fell inot a HECK of a hole is seems..dang it will probably take some time to post....but might be very important for us to look at more closely.

Eric JN Ellason(CEO of SlickRockWeb, SEO guy and part time citizen journalist. I am a numbers cruncher, problem solver)

So finally got to the newest #Hamilton68 wordclouds. A few interesting things to note. First up the subset of #hamilton68 twitter troll accounts focused on US politics. This is 62k tweets from between Feb 27th through Mar 2nd.

Eric

Looking at the #Hamilton68 subset of accounts focused on Russian geopolitics the conflict in Venezuela (#HandsOffVenezuela) was featured and new was the conflict between India and Pakistan. The #integrityinitiative continued to be a focus and again Tulsi was not that prominent.

Here our previous thread on the #integrityinitiative which is an international led initiative attempting to combat state sponsored disinformation. #infosec #disinfo

Looking at set of related #Hamilton68 bot accounts that appear 2b used to amplify certain stories & support the more influential #Hamilton68 troll accounts ... again Tulsi Gabbard was nowhere to be found. We've mentioned before this set of bot accounts rarely push out hashtags.

Looking at another subset of #Hamilton68 accounts that again focus on US politics but have a higher degree of foreign #osint .. showed more focus on #Qanon related hashtags. Of note #trump2020. Ocasio-cortez (@AOC) & abortion were among the more prominent non-hashtags .. #disinfo

The final wordcloud is from our new set of accounts that weren't specifically in the original #Hamiton68 panel but have many of the same indicators & are considered alt-left accounts. Here Tulsi Gabbard shows up but not in any prominent way & no Tulsi campaign hashtags of note.

So this gets us back to the two new hashtags that started showing up at the end of February .. #the200 and #themighty200 as indicated by the red arrows in the #Hamilton68 subset of Twitter trolls focused on US politics. #disinfo #infosec #osint

These 2 hashtags #the200 & #themighty200 relate to a Politico article that came out on Feb 20th. The authors discussed a set of 200 highly influential Twitter accounts they identified & believed 2b spreading #disinfo & targeting Dem presidential candidates........

NIKK............is this information saying Q...is 2 BILLION STRONG?????????

The authors also stated "with signs that foreign state actors are driving at least some of the activity." The word "some" was taken 2 mean "all" by many who jumped 2 the defense of the 200 that were publicly named. We believe the vast majority of #the200 are infact real Americans.

Nevertheless about 11 of the 200 accounts in #themighty200 we found to also be part of the #Hamilton68 accounts. And at least two were recently suspended by Twitter for unspecified reasons @geowashaxe and @annaapp91838450 #disinfo #infosec #osint

According to our #Hamilton68 archive data @geowashaxe was suspended around January 26th, 2019 and @annaapp91838450 also in January. We would love to interview either of these accounts if anyone knows how to get in touch with them. Our previous thread.

Eric

Finally we had a colleague create a Gephi network map of 17k tweets for hashtag #themighty200 on Mar 4th. The purple blog at the top is essentially from one Twitter account that averages about 750 tweets / day & recently changed their twitter handle from @StandSuperyaya #osint

Our disclaimers for this thread. In the previous tweet the dominant account in that #themighty200 Gephi map is very likely a real American even though it tweets about 750 times/day and thus we obscured the handle on the map. #infosec #osint

Many of #the200 tweet hundreds of times a day through a custom group tweetdeck. However most are very likely real Americans. Nevertheless its clear from the #Hamilton68 data that foreign influencer accnts are promoting & amplifying these accounts & have been 4 many months #osint

NIKK....throwing HIM IN as you will see why.

conspirador Norteno

Speaking of #QAnon, it and related hashtags are quite popular amongst the accounts tweeting #The200/#TheMighty200. Strangely, #GreenNewDeal also shows up. Media sources linked are largely right-wing conspiracy sites. (Charts based on each account's most recent 200 tweets.)

Retweet network for #The200/#TheMighty200. One of the main nodes, @superyayadize, changed names very recently from @StandSuperyaya. This account was also one of the earliest to tweet either of the hashtags.