Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 8, 2011 @09:50AM from the more-of-the-same dept.

tsu doh nimh writes "It appears that thousands of Twitter accounts created in advance to blast automated messages are being used to drown out Tweets sent by bloggers and activists this week who are protesting the disputed presidential elections in Russia. Trend Micro first observed on Wednesday the bogus tweets flooding popular hashtags being used by Russians protesting the election and the arrests of hundreds of protesters, including prominent anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny. Today, blogger Brian Krebs posted evidence that thousands of accounts apparently auto-created in mid-2011 were being used to flood more than a dozen hashtags connected to the protests, and appear to be all following each other and one master account, presumably the botnet controller."

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So are you saying I shouldn't have friended them? by WillAffleckUW · 2011-12-08 10:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Come on, everyone wants lots of Russian friends on both Twitter and Facebook!
But us calling them a dictatorship?
Please, have you looked in the mirror lately?

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