ISIS HAS 46000 TWITTER ACCOUNTS

The Brookings Institute has recently find that even while the social networking sites deleted thousands of accounts associated with the terrorist group in 2014, but still new one kept  popping.

Terrorist groups and their supporters have reportedly long used social media to communicate. AL-QAEDA and the TALIBAN have been believed to frequently use Facebook, and HAMAS had been reported to use Twitter.
Now,ISIS, is believed to be quite active on social networks. In fact, ISIS supporters are believed to be operating least 46,000 Twitter accounts between the month of September and December 2014, according to study released this week.Which is done by the Brookings Institute think tank.
ISIS "has exploited social media, most notoriously Twitter, to send its propaganda and messaging out to the world and to draw in people vulnerable to radicalization," J.M. Berger and Jonathan Morgan, the study's authors, wrote in the report. The firther added that the group is "using social media to attract new recruits and inspire lone actor attacks."
The whole point of using social media is to let people connect with them to exchange ideas and information.Sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube perfect platforms for terrorist organizations who are looking to spread their rech or ideas.
ISIS is known as one of the world's most popular terrorist groups. The group has made headlines in past few months for recording videos of its members beheading hostages, majority  of them were Western journalists and aid workers, and they uploaded that videos on youtube.
Brookings wanted to know the method how ISIS used Twitter and how far it was able to plot the traps on social network. Besides pinpointing 46,000 Twitter accounts associated with ISIS supporters, the think tank was also able to locate where many of those accounts were being operated, including Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, United States and Egypt. While the majority of the accounts used Arabic as their primary language, one in five of the accounts uses English as their primary language.These accounts which are identified by Brookings had an average of 1,000 followers each, which is more than the typical Twitter user has. The accounts also fired off more than 50 messages daily, making their acccounts  more active than the usual Twitter account. The most popular accounts tended to be the most active.
Much of ISIS's social media success can be attributed to a small group of hyperactive users, consisting of 500 to 2,000 accounts, which tweet in concentrated bursts of high volume," Berger and Morgan wrote.Most social networks based in the US do not allow designated terrorist organizations to maintain accounts on their sites. Twitter said it has suspended "thousands of accounts" since October 2014, according to Brookings report.the fact of matter is social network deletes accounts believed to be tied to ISIS, alternative accounts have reportedly popped up. Twitter didn't immediately respond to request for comment.
Reports are circulating around the Internet earlier this week regarding ISIS supporters that they were issuing death threats against Twitter employees and the company's founder Jack Dorsey, according to Buzzfeed. These supporters were reportedly unhappy on thousands of deleted accounts.
"Your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you," post by alleged ISIS supporters. "We told you from the beginning it's not your war, but you didn't get it and kept closing our accounts on Twitter, but we always come back."