Thread by @botvolution, I tweeted a thread the other day about "Ariyana Love", mentioning that [...]

I tweeted a thread the other day about "Ariyana Love", mentioning that some of her retweets/followers might bear a bit more attention.

Here's one: "@/lizzywales", Ariyana's most retweeted acct.

Lizzy's tweets reference the UK using "we", so we assume they live in the UK.

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If we examine her (shitty) timeline, we see that Lizzy is yet another covid-denier, anti-vaxxer and (of course) Brexitist.

Qanon, Krakens, racism towards (at least) Muslims, 5G & vaccine chip conspiracy also feature strongly.

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I've fetched the titles of those YouTube and Bitchute videos, by the way, and here they are.

We're not, as they say, in Kansas any more, are we?

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As we can see, Lizzy has 107k tweets on file according to Twitter, and her account was created in November 2013.

But, if we do an "advanced search" using the Twitter browser client, the earliest tweet we can find is on 12 April 2019 at 01:30UTC. Interesting time of day.

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(CAVEAT: I'm not clear if the advanced search has limits on how far back we can go, or whether there may be other features of it that mean we aren't able to see further back. Perhaps @luca knows?)

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We do know that over the past 28 days, Lizzy has tweeted ~256x a day (mean).

If she'd been tweeting at that rate since creation, she'd have ~670,000 tweets.

But she only has ~107,000.

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If she'd been tweeting at that rate since April 2019, however, she'd have ~162,000 on file.

So that's interestingly closer to her actual figure.

Of course, maybe she simply deleted a shitload, or just used to only tweet occasionally.

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Let's turn to her friends & followers.

We can know the *order* in which she followed/was followed by other accts & this in itself can be revealing.

Here are the first 10 accounts Lizzy followed.

Mainstream for a flat-out conspiracy nut, but maybe she got "radicalised"?

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OK, what about followers?

Nearly 24% are created in 2020.

But, here are her *first* ten: a montage of their bios, plus a text list of them, in reverse chronological order of following (i.e the last entry is the first follower)

Well.

That's interesting

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Look at that again.

Lizzy's account was created in Nov 2013, but her first follower wasn't even created until 5 months after that.

More strikingly, her second follower wasn't created for another 5 *years*. So for 5 years she can only have had 1 follower.

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That's quite striking.

(Or maybe she soft-blocked everyone who followed her in between? Is that a normal behaviour?

Maybe all the inbetweenies (if there were any) got suspended?

hmm.)

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Finally, a quick look at Lizzy's schedules.

These are not wildly improbable for a normal single-user genuine UK account. Not *wildly*.

Not **wildly** improbable.

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My *guess* (based on date, content, experience) is that this is either an account from a bulk set that's been left dormant then activated in 2019, or is compromised (i.e taken over, hacked in some way) from the original genuine owner.

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I'd also *guess* that it's in the hands of state-coordinated operators seeking to sow disinfo.

Which state?

Couldn't tell you, wouldn't want to guess. Too many candidates.

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But, I suppose it is *possible* that Lizzy is a real, radicalised, conspiracy-maddened UK resident.

We only have to have seen the crowds that turn up at UK hospitals with the likes of Piers Corbyn on hand to recognise that there really are people like this out there.

FIN

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