Trolling the Trolls

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Trolling: deliberately provoking someone online.

Run a search on a hashtag, try to figure out positive and negative tweets for it. Examples:

negative

"high school girls go wild over #mydressmychoice"

positive

"a woman should have the choice to wear what she wants"
"you should change your outlook on morals"

Automate detection of pattern language for the people behind trolling sock puppets. When new accounts are created and start tweeting with the same language patterns, automate the creation tickets so a person can check things like surrounding tweets and profile (are they joking?), then automate trolling.

keyhole.co as a potential supporting tool to automate finding posts.

To make Kenya-specific, there are certain words, timestamps, and geolocation to be considered.