As I look closer I see they are duplicate text but not the same image. It may have something to do with automatic RTs of unique Tweets, and there may be some automation or a digital image army (they openly call themselves "digital soldiers") making the image content that appears under the text. Here are 3 examples from the 180 retweeted by one from_user that I assumed, incorrectly, were RTs of the same Tweet because the text is identical. It is still a novel case of misinformation warfare. These are form letters or template propaganda Tweets which are rendered by humans and machines as near-duplicate artifacts where the alteration from the form letter is a stock anti-vax, Covid-denial image. https://twitter.com/Baitoushan4/status/1459018760677781505?s=20 https://twitter.com/Baitoushan4/status/1459018738653548549?s=20 https://twitter.com/Baitoushan4/status/1459018477000216577?s=20 Dr. Stuart ShulmanU.S. Soccer Federation C-Licensed Coach On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 10:55 AM Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone know how one Twitter account "from_user" can retweet the same tweet a few hundred times over 14 days?
I have recently found many examples of accounts RTing the same Tweet. In a single sub-set of less than 9,000 identical RTs from a bigger set responsive to the query "gettr" via the Search API, one from_user is responsible for 180 of the unique Tweet IDs. I'm not sure I have ever seen this digital artifact in the Twitter stream before. It should not be technically possible, unless the from_user RTs then undoes the RT and redoes the RT, perhaps via automation. There are examples in one case of 7 RTs of the same Tweet by the same from_user in a single minute. I would like to talk to anyone working on this dynamic or others interested in diving collaboratively into Gettr data on Twitter, which is both alarming and time sensitive. Thanks!
Dr. Stuart ShulmanU.S. Soccer Federation C-Licensed Coach