ISIS Has a Twitter Strategy and It Is Terrifying

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"Twitter is the cornerstone of the group’s digital strategy. 80% to 90% of its social media comes from twitter with a projected 46,000 to 70,000 accounts all over the world that are linked to promoting messages of hate (NYT). There are an estimated 21,000 English-language followers alone. (CNN) Most content comes from 2,000 over-performers that tweet in bursts of 50 or more tweets per day with each of these over-performers having an average of 1,004 followers. The result is an astonishing estimated 200,000 tweets per day. (The Brookings Institute)"

200,000 tweets per day? Who is the ISP in the ISIS controlled regions? Couldn't we just cut their ISP?

Training the machinations capable of discerning intent from tweets, seeking out their source, then pulling the plug might be all well and good for this purpose, but it will soon be used on others with less radical views.

This whole thing is unfortunate.

Good point.

I also forgot that the people being occupied by ISIS could use that same ISP to save themselves and their loved ones. They could use it also to help the fight against the terrorists.

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