Following the weekend’s report from Wired magazine which revealed how military intelligence had identified three possible scenarios for terrorists employing the micro-blogging platform Twitter, the CounterTerrorism blog has come up with a fourth threat.
Noting that the LA Fire Department is making good use of Twitter as a real-time incident information platform, Roderick Jones refers to an Islamist forum when he posts: “Perhaps the terrorist use of Twitter will be the revival of alhesbah as a micro-blog sending ideological updates to followers as well as including LAFD style incident updates – I would add this as, potential use scenario 4.”
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