Al-Shabaab Twitter: A Somali Militant Group Unveils A New Social Media Strategy For Terrorists

Slate :

Al-Shabaab, the Somali militant group heretofore best known for stoning teenage girls, blowing up soccer fans, and blocking food aid to their starving countrymen, is now on Twitter. You can talk to them if you like.

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Comments

[VolatorVentum]

02:55 AM on 12/29/2011

Relax. They'll tweet at someone instead of DM, and expose their secrets. Works every time.

[ResearchtheFacts]

03:41 PM on 12/28/2011

This is an attempt to turn people off from using twitter since OWS uses it and facebook. Like the poster said below...come on a little blue bird is now dangerous and didn't some Arab just invest in Twitter?

[ResearchtheFacts]

03:39 PM on 12/28/2011

It is the internet, they are all over the internet too. What's the point of this dumb article?

[jkkFL]

05:29 PM on 12/28/2011

To annoy you- did it work?

[ResearchtheFacts]

06:00 PM on 12/28/2011

Nope just thought it was dumb.

[ewj1]

03:14 PM on 12/28/2011

If you think things are bad on twitter go to Google+ and you will see
Al-Shabaab there also

[drumz]

12:58 PM on 12/28/2011

As soon as corporations started using social media I bailed. That's who this is about right?

[edenooch]

11:07 AM on 12/28/2011

this is the sign of the apocalypse. Some website with a stupid little blue bird is the front for terror

[littlepuffycloud]

11:04 AM on 12/28/2011

All tweeters are twits.

[Frank-Landfield]

12:45 PM on 12/28/2011

BS

[littlepuffycloud]

12:56 PM on 12/28/2011

I call your BS and raise you an FU

[Gary Storch]

10:51 AM on 12/28/2011

The CIA is an old social site for our American terrorists.

[Mister Grumpy]

10:03 AM on 12/28/2011

I didn't think terrorists liked to tweet unless they could somehow blow things up using it.

[mjeffn]

10:01 AM on 12/28/2011

So simple even cavemen can do it.

[old broken record]

09:06 AM on 12/28/2011

dont worry
for their support of militants
sopa will shutdown twitter
and dpaa will put twitter founders in gitmo