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Air Force Used Twitter to Track NY Flyover Fallout
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As the Pentagon warns of the security risks posed by social networking sites, newly released government documents show the military also uses these Internet tools to monitor and react to coverage of high-profile events.
The Air Force tracked online messaging service Twitter, video-sharing site YouTube and various blogs to assess the huge public backlash to the Air Force One flyover of the Statue of Liberty this spring, according to the documents.
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According to the Air Force One documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, a unit called the Combat Information Cell at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida monitored the public fallout from the April 27 flight and offered recommendations for dealing with the fast-breaking story.
Formed two years ago, the cell is made up of as many as nine people who analyze piles of data culled from the Internet and other sources to determine whether the Air Force's message is being heard.
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EFF's new lawsuit, and how the NSA is into social networking
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The government could be building a giant map of social networks using Facebook and Twitter, scraping MySpace pages, or mining the metadata associated with cellular phone calls in order to look for communication patterns.
The life of a Tweet
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The concept is simple, I wrote a stats engine to track the data of each user that clicks on the embeded URL in the tweet.
As people click on the link and retweet, the data on this page populates and rows near realtime.
What you are looking at now is 2 minutes from realtime results of the life of the Tweet.
How Active is Twitter Now? Tweespeed
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As of Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 1:10PM PST Twitter is pumping out 13,574 tweets per minute. I know from TweeSpeed, The Twitter Instant Speed Meter. The auto-refreshing application averages the last five minutes of Twitter's public timeline to get its figure.
Seeing green - Iran on Twitter
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With many people setting their Twitter icon to green and Maltego’s ability to show icons in the graph we thought it would be interesting to visualize it! The graph below is the senders and receivers of Tweets that mentioned the word “Iran”. Click on the image for the full size screenshot.
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Twitter and disinformation in Iran
Very interesting application of an open source intelligence/social network analysis application to mapping Twitter conversations/communities.
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Over the past week there has been a lot of media coverage of the relationship between Twitter, the hybrid online/mobile communication service, and its impact on post election events in Iran. The argument that Twitter service in Iran is a critical opposition activist tool is already over-hyped so I won’t rehash them here. Rather, I think its worth shedding some light on how Twitter is being used to spread disinformation and who is doing it.
Twitspam has a continually updated list of suspected fake accounts that may have connections with Iranian security. I used some of these account names as a starting point for a quick and dirty analysis of their networks. -
Update on Iran-Twitter-US cyber war
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Twitter has an issue ahead of them. After this experience the general populace has learned how to participate in cyber civil unrest. Twitter will be used in the future for hacking attacks and the targets of attacks may find legal cause to complain.
The State Department has created a huge issue by supporting Twitter. I hope they know what they are doing.
"Swine Flu" vs "H1N1" terminology - tweets show that people do not adopt the new term
Gunther Eysenbach has used monitoring of Twitter to show that the attempt to change public discourse from the use of "swine flu" to H1N1 has not really worked.
Emergency Information Patterns and Thoughts on Swine Flu
A well thought-out summary of the the general ways that social media has been used to track, display, and disseminate information related to swine flu and what that could/should mean for crisis communication in the future.
How we could have stopped swine flu
The short answer: Spend less time trying to track disease outbreak online and instead spend more time "in the jungle."
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Add Sticky NoteBut it has also begun to use sophisticated new software to trawl the internet for reports of unusual disease outbreaks.
This approach to spotting pandemics early has powerful backers. Last November, Google became the latest organisation to throw its weight behind the war on emerging infections diseases (EIDs) when it launched Google Flu Trends, a site which aims to predict annual winter flu outbreaks simply by tracking around 40 common terms people search for when suffering flu-like symptoms. (Google launched the site after its engineers found the results accurately tracked flu reports from doctors’ surgeries and clinics, but without the normal one to two week reporting lag.)- Google is not the only "backer" of the approach; nor was it Google engineers who discovered that search trend data can be used to predict disease outbreak. Rather, there is support from scientists who have published articles in peer-reviewed journals indicating that these techniques hold great promise. Framing it as Google being the big backer and the research being an inside job is meant to diminish the idea. But this framing is patently false. - on 2009-05-21
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But for all their ingenuity, the worry is that these amount to little more than technological tricks.
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Twitter mining vs deep viral mining
Evgeny Morozov's latest, totally uninformed ramblings about the lack of usefulness of social media in general, and Twitter in particular, as tools for public health surveillance.
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Add Sticky NoteTwitter-disinformation aside, there still remains an important question of whether we could actually use the Internet to spot new epidemics. I haven't yet formed a firm opinion; perhaps, once data from mobiles is well-integrated into our tools this would be possible -- but for now, we are, probably, still are quite far fromfiguring out how to predict epidemics with the Web tools alone (the point being that epidemics usually break out in places with limited internet access).
- Haven't made up your mind, huh? Actually, it sounds like you have made up your mind...you think it doesn't work. Luckily, people who actually know something about public health and "infodemiology" (a term and area of research you don't even know exists) have made up their minds. And they think, and have in some cases demonstrated in published, peer reviewed scientific articles, that these techniques hold great promise. - on 2009-05-21
Reports on Twitter Fueling H1N1/Swine Flu Fear and Misinformation Are Vastly Overstated
Gunther Eysenbach, "medicine 2.0" guru and author of the first published, scientific study using Google search trends to predict and track flu outbreaks, responds to the claim that Twitter is spreading panic and misinformation about the swine flu. Survey says? Nope. Twitter is not primarily serving to spread misinformation.
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