Tweets that were part of a coordinated campaign using the phrase “Hawaii not Ukraine.”

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   Caroline Orr Bueno (rvawonk@newsie.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 01:38:24 JST Caroline Orr Bueno

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   To figure out what was going on, I looked at a sample of 200 tweets using that phrase, and also purposively sampled the earliest tweets using that phrase to study its origins.

   Immediately, the timing of the first 4 tweets using that phrase stood out to me. They were spaced out almost exactly an hour apart, nearly to the minute.

   The jump from the 1st account, w/ 37 followers, to the 2nd account w/ 51,000+, to the 3rd — a GOP candidate for Atty General w/ 217,000+ followers — was eye-popping.