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Retweet to Win: How 50 lines of Python made me the luckiest guy on Twitter

DEF CON 24 · 2016

Presenter: Hunter Scott

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Research dataset: Lukas Walter, Clemens Sauerwein, Daniel Woods, InfoSec.pptx, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15989593, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Changes: metadata extraction, exact-match reconciliation and uncertainty flags. No endorsement implied.

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