With parliamentary elections approaching in Serbia, numerous Instagram accounts critical of the ruling government have experienced sudden waves of suspicious followers, sometimes thousands within just a few hours.<\/p>\n
We’ve collected around 1.3 million follower records and published them as an open dataset on Hugging Face:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/huggingface.co\/datasets\/gavrilo\/botijada<\/a><\/p>\n The dataset includes follow timestamps and pseudonymized account IDs that remain consistent across different profiles.<\/p>\n There are quite a few interesting directions to explore here: temporal patterns, shared followers between accounts, network structures, clustering, anomaly detection, and potentially signs of coordinated activity.<\/p>\n I’m sharing this mostly because I think there’s a lot of room to experiment with the data, especially if you’re into graph analysis, data visualization, or finding interesting patterns in messy real-world datasets.<\/p>\n Feel free to play around with it, build something, or share whatever you discover. I’d be genuinely interested in seeing different approaches and interpretations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n submitted by \/u\/gavrilo91 <\/a>
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