How ISIS Uses Twitter
Patrick Nieto
patrickrnieto@gmail.com
github.com/patricknieto
IT should not be taken lightly
90% of its social media, 70,000 accounts
2,000 over-performers - 50 tweets per day
200,000 tweets per day
ISIS Has a Twitter Strategy and It Is Terrifying
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Initiate Revolutions
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Spread messages of hate
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Recruit susceptible youth
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Project power across the globe
Plan of Attack
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Twitter itself taking down accounts
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Hacktavists taking down websites and flagging accounts
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Governments programs promoting setbacks of ISIS
How can we make this better?
Frequency of ISIS Tweets in 2016
Content, content, contenT...
17,000 tweets from 1556 users
Preprocessing
Retweet extraction
Document Clustering
- TF-IDF vectorizer
- Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
- Group users based on content
Network Graph
- Build relationships based on mentions
- Identify the social influencers
- Gephi graphing tool
"Reporters"
islamic state, breaking, Amaq agency
Iraqi, Fallujah, martyrdom
operation
"Fanboys"
follow, alaikum, suspension
khair, assalamu, jazakAllah, retweet
“Mujahideen"
Syria, Assad, Aleppo,
Russian, rebels, ypg, saa
"isisdefector ypg and the syrian governement are working together against the moderate syrian opposition"
"#breakingnews #isis showing private information of #usa @potus and his family after a hacking attempt a while ago"
"you dare expose me to the enemies will see each other on judgement day allah azzawajal is the best judge"
Mujahideen
Reporters
Fanboys
Thank you!
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