Reading done on December 12 2017
"Jihadists on the Move in Iraq with Weapons, Hashtags"
- by Alexander Trowbridge - June 19 2014
- link to article: CBS News
- photos source:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-jihadists-on-move-in-iraq-using-weapons-and-twitter-hashtags/
“ISIS has developed a Twitter app for Android phones called The Dawn of Glad Tidings, Berger said. It offers users news and information about ISIS. When users sign up, they give ISIS permission to send tweets through their own personal accounts. Your account functions normally most of the time, but it will periodically broadcast tweets from ISIS that are also sent around at the same time to hundreds or even thousands of other accounts,“ Berger told CBS News. He said the app helps ISIS get pre-approved hashtags trending on Twitter in certain areas, which then amplifies its message” (Trowbridge 2014).
“Online intimidation doesn’t always lead to enemy surrender, but it doesn’t hurt.
Photo from the article that has the following caption: “Image reportedly released by ISIS and spread on Twitter shows a jihadi fighter looking at the ISIS flag flying over Baghdad” (Trowbridge 2014).
Along these lines, Berger cited the example of the group’s use of its app Sunday night to blast out an image of a jihadi looking at the ISIS flag flying over Baghdad. The push was so effective, Berger said, that the image temporarily appeared as a top result on Twitter when users searched the Arabic word for Baghdad. "So if you’re in Baghdad, trying to figure out what’s going on with this conflict, and you put in a search and what comes up is a picture of an ISIS jihadi with the caption ‘We are coming,’ I would say that that probably has some intimidation effect,” Berger said” (Trowbridge 2014).