We've periodically run across Twitter accounts with random-looking 15 character account names like @JMS4Tvpg8iXucxP As it turns out, these @-names are what Twitter generates if you enter a name in a non-Latin alphabet when creating a new account.
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 This means that accounts (especially non-Western ones) with the random 15-character names aren't necessarily suspicious - they may simply not have changed the default name. If the accounts claim US residence and use at least some English, however, that's potentially a red flag. 
 Next, we have @dOu651SGBLPD2Pa, a purported DC resident with a stolen photo. Per this account's single tweet, "For well being have struggled with being good is that everything is true" and we can't say we disagree with, or can even comprehend, this sentiment.



 Hypothetically living in the United States per its profile, @eF5Xn2wy2uJN1W9 was conveniently created at the end of December and hit the ground running tweeting about recent events in Iraq in both English and Arabic.







 This wouldn't be a proper roundup of sketchy Twitter accounts without at least one porn account, and @H1Bdl77qjVqGN2H delivers. Interestingly, its first presently live tweet was sent via Twitter SMS, the same mechanism used to temporarily hack @jack's account.



 Like @H1Bdl77qjVqGN2H, supposed Berkeley local @rN0chUr532PlR8x's first tweet was also posted via Twitter SMS. This one is a low-volume #MAGAaccount that mostly consists of retweets and memes.





 Next up, we have @ITJP5Y5yNO70QFd aka "China News" which is of course based in Washington DC. Rather than a news source, this appears to be a follower-farming account, complete with a short link to some kind of follower growth site that has been deemed unsafe by McAfee.





 Moving on, meet @ol502ykFAsJL74o aka "Cheryl", an account with a Pepe avatar that tweets about Hong Kong in multiple languages. Despite claiming to reside in the USA, its tweet schedule is more consistent with Hong Kong.







 We'd love to know what @ZLO97kt8f3vmVfz aka "USA for Trump" has tweeted, but sadly, this one's locked. Moving on.

 Last but definitely not least, meet UFC world fighting champion @O7tg7vF9QM6vhLW. We are grateful that an athlete of such prominence put in the effort to create this account and tweet a whole three times.







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