Terrorist Group Al-Qaeda Has Launched Its First Twitter Account
Al-Qaeda is now on Twitter.
Under the guise of its Shamukh al-Islam website, the official website of the terror organization, the terror group has now fired up its own Twitter feed, possibly in response to the effectiveness of terrorists live-tweeting the Kenya mall attack.
Having already issued 29 tweets ranging in topics from death tallies to religious proclamations, @shomokhalislam has almost 1,800 followers as of early Saturday morning.
The account’s opening signals a shift in the terror organization’s outreach, propaganda and basic communications efforts, according to experts.
Terrifying: al-Qaeda has started its own Twitter account
‘We’ve seen terrorist groups make increasingly effective use of social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, in recent years,’ Patrick Poole, a counterterrorism expert, told the Washington Times.
‘Not only is this important for propaganda purposes but also recruitment.’
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