Terrorists post 90 tweets a minute
The Saudi-based Sakina NGO finds that terrorist groups including ISIS post 90 propaganda tweets a minute. ISIS, Al-Nusra and other groups posted 129,600 tweets in October. Sakina official:
The nature of the extremist can be understood by analysing his posts, identifying his social circle and understanding his internal motives and history
Twitter employees threatened
A Twitter account believed to represent the Jerusalem-based radical group Al Nusra Al Maqdisia (The Supporters of Jerusalem), which has pledged allegiance to ISIS and claims to have represented the group in the 2014 Gaza conflict, threatens Twitter employees with assassination. Twitter user @dawlamoon uses a hashtag that translates to #The_Concept_of_Lone_Wolf_Attacks to make the threats on the platform’s Arabic service:
The time has arrived to respond to Twitter’s management by directly attacking their employees and physically assassinating them!! Those who will carry this out are the sleepers cells of death.
Twitter has suspended @dawlamoon and says it is investigating the threats.
#ISISmovies hashtag
Twitter users satirize ISIS using the hashtag #ISISmovies. Libyan-American writer Hend Amry:
Sometimes, you have to mock, to belittle. Because sometimes, belittlement is your enemy’s greatest fear
Girls just want to have fundamentalism #ISISmovies
— Amro Ali (@_amroali) August 16, 2014