https://github.com/edsu/botnet-retweets
Exploring retweets by Twitter bot-nets.
https://github.com/edsu/botnet-retweets
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Exploring retweets by Twitter bot-nets.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/edsu/botnet-retweets
- Owner: edsu
- Created: 2017-08-30T22:56:22.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-08-30T23:22:01.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-09-19T18:52:05.039Z (9 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 4.28 MB
- Stars: 10
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
This repository contains CSV data files that contain information for Twitter
users who retweeted two tweets:
* https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/902545914304319491
* https://twitter.com/benimmo/status/902673891792965637
The theory being that briankrebs and benimmo's use of Twitter was being
disrupted by a botnet that was retweeting their account and following them. The
retweets were collected using [this
approach](https://gist.github.com/edsu/94901f4a6454805f04fff6d9c10b0b8a). With
the JSON data in hand it was possible to generate CSVs which you see here.
Twitter's terms of service don't allow the original JSON to be distributed in
bulk to third parties, but they do allow CSVs to be made available, so those are
here in this repository.
[csvkit](https://csvkit.readthedocs.io) is handy for joining the CSVs to see
what users retweeted both briankrebs and benimmo's tweets:
csvsql --query "select briankrebs.* from briankrebs, benimmo where briankrebs.screen_name = benimmo.screen_name" briankrebs.csv bennimo.csv > briankrebs_benimmo.csv