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

Alshabaab Twitter

First Posted: 12/28/11 08:41 AM ET Updated: 12/28/11 08:42 AM ET

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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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 th...
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 th...
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02:55 AM on 12/29/2011
Relax. They'll tweet at someone instead of DM, and expose their secrets. Works every time.
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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?
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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?
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jkkFL
microbio refusé, je vous refusez
05:29 PM on 12/28/2011
To annoy you- did it work?
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ResearchtheFacts
06:00 PM on 12/28/2011
Nope just thought it was dumb.
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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
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drumz
Those little red panties they pass the test
12:58 PM on 12/28/2011
As soon as corporations started using social media I bailed. That's who this is about right?
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
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littlepuffycloud
I propose a toast to my self control...
11:04 AM on 12/28/2011
All tweeters are twits.
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Frank-Landfield
12:45 PM on 12/28/2011
BS
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littlepuffycloud
I propose a toast to my self control...
12:56 PM on 12/28/2011
I call your BS and raise you an FU
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Gary Storch
Democracy is NOT for Sale!
10:51 AM on 12/28/2011
The CIA is an old social site for our American terrorists.
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Mister Grumpy
An Angry American
10:03 AM on 12/28/2011
I didn't think terrorists liked to tweet unless they could somehow blow things up using it.
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mjeffn
Freedom's just another word 4 nothing left to lose
10:01 AM on 12/28/2011
So simple even cavemen can do it.
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