Decreased the ... proselytism via twitter by ISIS
The new supporters approach rate - members of the Islamic State, through the English-speaking personal pages - accounts on Twitter, has declined in recent months, after the organized business of social media managers against organized digital conversion, according to the research results .
For a long time the Islamic State used the said social networking tool for recruiting new members, reaching like-minded, who spoke English.
Disabling user pages have relations with the Islamic State from June to October 2015 restricted the growth of its members, and in some cases annihilated mass approach from suspect who had a direct connection with the jihadists, according to report against the extremism Programme, implemented by the university George Washington.
The references from the list uses personal pages or accounts that promote the Islamic State in Twitter.
The survey found that the accounts of English language profile that is easily recognizable and expressing sympathy for the Islamic State was less than 1000, while the activity of these accounts were mostly introverted and limited to chat with each other.
The Islamic State controls large areas of Syria and Iraq and has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks in Paris in November, resulting in the deaths of 130 people. The US and Western governments describe as "terrorist organization", according to the Athens Press Agency
The company Twitter Inc. has for some time been the focus of criticism from government officials for relaxed approach to issues relating to the disclosure content and messages of Twitter users in their accounts.
On the other hand, other companies that manage social media such as Facebook Inc., began to engage more actively in the monitoring of messages and content published by users.
After the escalating pressure from the White House, candidates for the presidential post, but also by groups of citizens, Twitter announced earlier this month that ended more than 125,000 accounts, which were related to terrorism.
These accounts were deactivated by mid 2015 and most of them were interconnected with the Islamic State.
In post, the company said in Twitter that closed accounts reported by other users, while increasing the size of the teams who oversee the content of the accounts, thus has a faster reaction to the reports it receives suspicious accounts.
The Tz. M. Berger who was involved in preparing the report emphasizes that Twitter is less active compared with their competitors and this is because it is relatively new medium.
"All social networking companies have entered the procedure of checking the accounts and their content pages," he said during the interview.
Regarding account activity on Twitter related to the Islamic State, said that in general have low activity, and occasionally performed "clearing" accounts, Berger said.
The survey was conducted before the terrorist attacks in Paris, which in the opinion of researchers led to mass delete accounts mainly in French-speaking and Arabic-language social media.
The average daily score of Tweets during the investigation on suspected links to terrorism bills was 14.5 (higher) in June and 5.5 (lower) in October, according to the findings of the investigation.
The average of those who followed such an account (followers) was from 300-400 people.
The new supporters approach rate - members of the Islamic State, through the English-speaking personal pages - accounts on Twitter, has declined in recent months, after the organized business of social media managers against organized digital conversion, according to the research results .
For a long time the Islamic State used the said social networking tool for recruiting new members, reaching like-minded, who spoke English.
Disabling user pages have relations with the Islamic State from June to October 2015 restricted the growth of its members, and in some cases annihilated mass approach from suspect who had a direct connection with the jihadists, according to report against the extremism Programme, implemented by the university George Washington.
The references from the list uses personal pages or accounts that promote the Islamic State in Twitter.
The survey found that the accounts of English language profile that is easily recognizable and expressing sympathy for the Islamic State was less than 1000, while the activity of these accounts were mostly introverted and limited to chat with each other.
The Islamic State controls large areas of Syria and Iraq and has claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks in Paris in November, resulting in the deaths of 130 people. The US and Western governments describe as "terrorist organization", according to the Athens Press Agency
The company Twitter Inc. has for some time been the focus of criticism from government officials for relaxed approach to issues relating to the disclosure content and messages of Twitter users in their accounts.
On the other hand, other companies that manage social media such as Facebook Inc., began to engage more actively in the monitoring of messages and content published by users.
After the escalating pressure from the White House, candidates for the presidential post, but also by groups of citizens, Twitter announced earlier this month that ended more than 125,000 accounts, which were related to terrorism.
These accounts were deactivated by mid 2015 and most of them were interconnected with the Islamic State.
In post, the company said in Twitter that closed accounts reported by other users, while increasing the size of the teams who oversee the content of the accounts, thus has a faster reaction to the reports it receives suspicious accounts.
The Tz. M. Berger who was involved in preparing the report emphasizes that Twitter is less active compared with their competitors and this is because it is relatively new medium.
"All social networking companies have entered the procedure of checking the accounts and their content pages," he said during the interview.
Regarding account activity on Twitter related to the Islamic State, said that in general have low activity, and occasionally performed "clearing" accounts, Berger said.
The survey was conducted before the terrorist attacks in Paris, which in the opinion of researchers led to mass delete accounts mainly in French-speaking and Arabic-language social media.
The average daily score of Tweets during the investigation on suspected links to terrorism bills was 14.5 (higher) in June and 5.5 (lower) in October, according to the findings of the investigation.
The average of those who followed such an account (followers) was from 300-400 people.
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