Meet @Wizard_Predicts, a self-anointed Election Wizard with 106K followers and a taste for dubious tweets about voter fraud. It takes pride in being followed by @DanScavino, @MattGaetz, @DLoesch, and many more. (We'll get back to the "many more" part shortly).
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The first unusual thing we noticed about @Wizard_Predicts: despite it being an English-language pro-Trump account, many of the "Who To Follow" suggestions that come up when viewing its timeline are non-English accounts.
Although @Wizard_Predicts's followers mostly look like English-language #MAGA accounts, things get a weirder when we look at the first 10K or so: the 2009 spike in account creations we usually see is largely absent. (Its first follower is right-wing Twitter pundit @Barnes_Law.)
Additionally, many of @Wizard_Predicts's first 10K followers are accounts that follow hundreds of times as many accounts as they have followers of their own. Followers/following ratios are substantially less extreme for its later followers.
One more thing: a lot of @Wizard_Predicts's early followers are non-English language accounts. 23% of those of its first 10K followers with visible tweets (1779 of 7878 accounts) tweet primarily in a language other than English, compared to 6% (483/8212 accounts) of the next 10K.
Also, @Wizard_Predicts (permanent ID 1290635110149169152) wasn't always named @Wizard_Predicts. Previous names include @ConLawScholar and @RogueEsq (and possibly others we haven't found yet).
We looked further at the retweets of @Wizard_Predicts's tweets available via the Twitter API, and found that it has had at least 13 different @-names since August 1st.