We took a look at nine days& #39; worth of recent replies to @JoeBiden. Unsurprisingly, the Democratic nominee& #39;s account gets a lot of attention - 613039 replies from 266655 accounts between October 11th and 19th, 2020. Very little of the traffic looks automated.

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Although @JoeBiden consistently receives tens of thousands of replies per day, few contained links to news sites before Oct 14, when the New York Post published its story about Hunter Biden& #39;s alleged laptop. Links are mostly a mix of NY Post and various right-wing sites.

In keeping with the theme of the NY post story, Hunter Biden and various allegations that Joe Biden is corrupt are a recurring them of recent replies to @JoeBiden, especially the hashtags used. Two of the top four are #CrookedJoeBiden and #BidenCrimeFamily.

The accounts that recently replied to @JoeBiden are disproportionately new creations: 32812 of 266655 accounts (12.3%) were created July 1st 2020 or later. Do these accounts support or oppose Biden?

Answer: based on accounts retweeted, substantially more of the recently-created accounts replying to Biden support Trump than Biden (12974 pro-Trump/7779 pro-Biden). At least 72 of the pro-Trump accounts presently have one of the leaked Hunter Biden photos as their profile pic.