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In a few hours I pulled 3000+ tweets using China location tags #北京, #杭州 & #重庆. These tags are dens of spam.

Red lines indicate interactions between accounts (generally normal activity). Orange nodes are lone accounts, almost all of which spam the tags with dating ads.

https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1597291452786429952

A quick summary on the accounts created seen in the network graph above.
- 555 of the accounts were made in Nov
- 463 made in Oct
- many have zero or few followers
- many mention "high end silk" ads in different ways.

That's just out of the 3000 I collected. But so many more

Here is what that spammy content looks like, over and over again.

For journalists or researchers looking up what's happening in China at specific locations. This is what they're wading through.

Happy to share the data with legitimate researchers online activity.

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Benjamin Strick

@BenDoBrown

Over the past 20 minutes, almost 2000 tweets have been uploaded using the hashtags of major Chinese cities (such as #杭州), all with the text "I'm single, can I get a husband on Twitter".

All of the accounts have been made in the past two months, and have zero or few followers.

This is happening during a very interesting period.

Namely, while content about the protests in China is being posted on Twitter, using the hashtags of the cities as place markers.

Here's some context on those protests bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

I've downloaded a full csv of the past 2000 tweets using #杭州线下 (Hangzhou offline).

The phrases appear to be quite odd. Some mentioning Pokemon...

Hit me up if you want the csv.

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