Ephemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1910.07783/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTEphemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends — mentioned by shrikanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368420urn:hackerpapers:mention:1910.07783:27368420Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:28:28 GMT<p>The original source is much better written and explains the core of what the paper actually uncovers: &gt; [...] found a vulnerability in the algorithm that decides Twitter Trending Topics: it does not take deletions into account. This allows attackers to push the trends they want to the top of Twitter Trends despite deleting their tweets which contain the candidate trend shortly afterwards. Source: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/mass-scale-manipulation-of-twitter... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.07783.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1910.07783/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CREphemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends — HN submissionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304004urn:hackerpapers:submission:1910.07783:21304004Sun, 20 Oct 2019 13:30:18 GMT<p>Lateral Astroturfing Attacks on Twitter Trending Topics</p><p></p><p>3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1910.07783/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR