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I'm going to bet on this as being Jake's unicorn.
On the one hand it's in Kirkland, WA.
On the other hand, it doesn't matter if it's in Mystic, CT or on the other side of the country, it might as well be on the far side of the moon if you're too God Damned Autistic to leave the house.
On another topic: I was reading some stupid clickbait, and they linked to an "academic study" of "bot activity" relating to Star Wars: The Last Jedi. I checked it out, and they have an official list of "bot-like" characteristics of an account.
I attached the study here so as not to give it too many extra clicks. It's mostly laughable, but the "Methods" section does conveniently aggregate together some widely-accepted bot spotting heuristics.
Jake doesn't flag every single one of them, but he
does flag quite a few:
- Sends more than 50 tweets a day
- 70% or more of their tweets are retweets (I haven't counted but this seems quite likely)
- "Don’t change the visual presentation of their profile very much from the default settings"
- "they insert themselves in, and often solely focus on, discussions that take up space in American media discourse"
- "prefer the Twitter Web client over the mobile client"
- "They also often pretend to be sources of information or news outlets"
- "Tweets from Russian trolls exceeded the base line between 7am and 10pm and then again — more substantially — between 12 noon and 5pm UTC"
Someone with Twitter should run Jake's account through Botometer and see if he gets flagged as a bot:
Botometer® (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of Twitter accounts and gives them a score based on how likely they are to be bots. Higher scores are more bot-like. Brought to you by the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe) at Indiana University.
botometer.iuni.iu.edu