Study finds ISIS supporters may be operating 46,000 Twitter accounts
A study released this week by the Brookings Institute attempts to quantify ISIS’s social media influence, The New York Times reports. The study, The ISIS Twitter Census, compiled data from September to December last year to determine the number of accounts run by Islamic State supporters. It is the first public attempt to measure the reach of ISIS on social media.
The study’s authors, J.M. Berger and Jonathon Morgan, monitored proxies of official ISIS accounts that had been suspended in the summer of 2014, and tracked “friends” of the seed accounts. Because ISIS is an insular community, the authors decided to track only accounts that followed fewer than 500 people. Morgan and Berger argued these accounts were more optimally focused,…
Source:: The Verge
