After I published my last blog about fake Honduran accounts I was contacted by several people saying I should look at all the other bots in Honduran Twitter. I was already aware of previous work about networks of fake accounts that Hondurans call “JOHbots” — named for the President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.

I captured 17,413 tweets mentioning the handle of Juan Orlando Hernández, @JuanOrlandoH, between December 25 and December 29, 2017 and found networks of obviously fake Twitter accounts. These fake accounts are very primitive bots. They are clearly fake and for the most part exist only to retweet the President of Honduras.

7,608 tweets from the dataset of 17,413 tweets — or 44% of the dataset — were sent using TweetDeck.