The automation in the conservative botnets on Twitter is kind of astounding. I had the misfortune of being replied to by one of the typical UltraMAGA2016 accou

The automation in the conservative botnets on Twitter is kind of astounding. I had the misfortune of being replied to by one of the typical UltraMAGA2016 accounts on Twitter. A few replies, retweets, and favorites of that tweet showed up in my notifications. Then nothing for 5 days. Then on Sunday at 1am, a specific botnet picked it up and began retweeting and favoriting with a vengeance. A few every 20 to 70 seconds. This continued for a few hours and then stopped. Looking into the accounts, they all followed each other and retweeted and favorited things the other accounts posted. The vast majority were unused for any other purpose (no personal or work tweets of any kind, no retweets of anything outside this network and one adjacent). And over half of them were egg accounts with names similar to the account that initially replied (style of UltraTRUMPMaga, MAGATrump4Eva, etc).