[Air-L] a twitter question - multiple RTs by a single from_user

[Stuart Shulman]

As I look closer I see they are duplicate text but not the same image. It
may have something to do with automatic RTs of unique Tweets, and there may
be some automation or a digital image army (they openly call themselves
"digital soldiers") making the image content that appears under the text.
Here are 3 examples from the 180 retweeted by one from_user that I assumed,
incorrectly, were RTs of the same Tweet because the text is identical. It
is still a novel case of misinformation warfare. These are form letters or
template propaganda Tweets which are rendered by humans and machines as
near-duplicate artifacts where the alteration from the form letter is a
stock anti-vax, Covid-denial image.

https://twitter.com/Baitoushan4/status/1459018760677781505?s=20
https://twitter.com/Baitoushan4/status/1459018738653548549?s=20
https://twitter.com/Baitoushan4/status/1459018477000216577?s=20

Dr. Stuart ShulmanU.S. Soccer Federation C-Licensed Coach



On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 10:55 AM Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Does anyone know how one Twitter account "from_user" can retweet the same
> tweet a few hundred times over 14 days?
>
> I have recently found many examples of accounts RTing the same Tweet. In a
> single sub-set of less than 9,000 identical RTs from a bigger set
> responsive to the query "gettr" via the Search API, one from_user is
> responsible for 180 of the unique Tweet IDs. I'm not sure I have ever seen
> this digital artifact in the Twitter stream before. It should not be
> technically possible, unless the from_user RTs then undoes the RT and
> redoes the RT, perhaps via automation. There are examples in one case of 7
> RTs of the same Tweet by the same from_user in a single minute. I would
> like to talk to anyone working on this dynamic or others interested in
> diving collaboratively into Gettr data on Twitter, which is both alarming
> and time sensitive. Thanks!
>
> Dr. Stuart ShulmanU.S. Soccer Federation C-Licensed Coach
>
>