This been happening literally for years, and this is the first time I've seen it presented so well. Incredible work. I used to work for a social media startup that has software that crawled Twitter for keywords in geographic areas (so we could tweet on behalf of local businesses and connect them with people looking for their products or services) and there'd be times I'd have an entire list of tweets from nothing but fake accounts. Often, they were actually using the same keyword or completely same tweet. I'd see some add random characters to differentiate, and you could tell many were ripped off from actual tweets, just removing @ tags and hashtags. I've also seen a lot of this rampantly happening around the hashtag we use for our event in October, ripping off attendees tweets. It's so creepy, actually.
Again, great work. Definitely sharing this one.