Thursday, 28 September 2017

Russian trolls slip up again

The account is now protected since this incident, which is hilariously pointless as most observers had already spotted it was a far-right fake account.

For completeness, here's what Twitonomy can still tell us about the account:

  • It uses a VPN (timezone doesn't correspond to anywhere in the US) 
  • It's a group account - which would be expected even if it were genuine 
  • The times it tweets at correspond to UTC-9 (not currently being used) or UTC + 11, which is in... Guess?

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