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0 pointsincidentnormal5y ago0 comments

> If you could look for something like multiple accounts tweeting the same thing within 1 minute, in the past couple weeks, you could turn up some candidates for test accounts

I think this would turn up alot more results than you bargained for.

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ALittleLight5y ago

I think it could be easy enough to pare down programmatically. You'd have to search by adding things like:

* 5+ accounts tweeting exactly the same message

* Not using the mobile app

* Fewer than 10 followers

* Fewer than 10 following

* Liked fewer than 10 tweets

* Retweeted fewer than 10 tweets

* Accounts created within 24 hours of each other

* Account creation metadata is similar

* Account less than 1 month old

You could probably come up with more criteria to help narrow the scope and play with the numbers. I would bet that you probably come up with hundreds to low thousands of accounts fitting those criteria at most. You could spend an hour scrolling through them looking for something suspicious - and I don't think it would take too long to put this kind of thing together if you had database access.

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