Thread: Targeted harassment and swarming is a serious problem on Twitter, and today I will show you just how serious the problem is.

I analyzed two tweets, one from @TheWilderThings and the other from @NatSecLisa. The contrast between the two tweets activity is striking...
For this experiment, I used the Bot Sentinel Bulk Analyzer: https://botsentinel.com/advanced-tools/bulkanalyzer/analyze

I set the Bulk Analyzer to analyze 2000 accounts for each tweet, and each account was classified using the Bot Sentinel machine learning classification model and algorithm...
. @TheWilderThings's tweet received 1.8k replies, 58.1k retweets, and 416.5k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1599 accounts. 78% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and only 8% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity was normal...
. @TheWilderThings's tweet received 1.8k replies, 58.1k retweets, and 416.5k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1599 accounts. 78% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and only 8% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity was normal...
. @TheWilderThings's tweet received 1.8k replies, 58.1k retweets, and 416.5k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1599 accounts. 78% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and only 8% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity was normal...
. @TheWilderThings's tweet received 1.8k replies, 58.1k retweets, and 416.5k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1599 accounts. 78% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and only 8% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity was normal...
. @TheWilderThings's tweet received 1.8k replies, 58.1k retweets, and 416.5k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1599 accounts. 78% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and only 8% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity was normal...
@NatSecLisa’s tweet received 5.2k replies, 6.1k retweets, and 12.4k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1913 accounts. Only 7% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and 14% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity wasn't normal...
@NatSecLisa’s tweet received 5.2k replies, 6.1k retweets, and 12.4k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1913 accounts. Only 7% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and 14% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity wasn't normal...
@NatSecLisa’s tweet received 5.2k replies, 6.1k retweets, and 12.4k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1913 accounts. Only 7% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and 14% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity wasn't normal...
@NatSecLisa’s tweet received 5.2k replies, 6.1k retweets, and 12.4k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1913 accounts. Only 7% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and 14% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity wasn't normal...
@NatSecLisa’s tweet received 5.2k replies, 6.1k retweets, and 12.4k likes. The analyzer was able to classify 1913 accounts. Only 7% of the accounts replying to her tweet were classified as normal, and 14% of the accounts were created in 2020. The activity wasn't normal...
. @NatSecLisa is one of the countless public figures who are targets of sustained online harassment and swarming. Next month we hope we can finally get the upper hand and finally put a stop to these types of attacks with our Auto Blocker tool. Stay tuned! https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1288244804611178497
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