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04 Aug 09

Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace, Facebook

  • The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately.


    “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday. “The very nature of SNS [social network sites] creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage that puts OPSEC [operational security], COMSEC [communications security], [and] personnel… at an elevated risk of compromise.”


    The Marines’ ban will last a year.

  • Yet many within the Pentagon’s highest ranks find value in the Web 2.0 tools.
    • More evidence here that there is still very much an internal battle over social media within DoD. Much of that battle involves differing views o what 21st century warfare is all about, what is required for victory, the relative importance of winning "hearst and minds," etc. - on 2009-08-04
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22 May 09

"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.

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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.

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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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  • But 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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  • Twitter-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
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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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26 Apr 09

Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform

  • Thus, Unlike
    basic internet search – which has been already been nicely used by
    Google to track emerging
    flu epidemics     – Twitter seems to have introduced too much noise into the
    process
  • And yet the bottom line is that tracking the
    frequency of Twitter mentions of swine flu as a means of predicting
    anything thus becomes useless
18 Mar 09

Blogs vs Twitter? It’s the Interactivity

Nancy Baym over at Online Fandom has a great discussion of the differences between Twitter and Blogging. Definitely worth a read!

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  • Twitter isn’t a substitute for blogging.
    • And it should be added that neither should Twitter be merely a rebroadcast of one's blog. - on 2009-03-18
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  • People like Twitterers’ minutia.
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01 Nov 08

Twitterers Stage Mock Martian Invasion a la 'War of the Worlds'

This is interesting and creative. I wonder if a similar tactic could be used for PSYOP/deception purposes--i.e. have a bunch of folks working together to spread news of fake events for the purpose of inducing panic or some other effect. If I were less of a good guy, how could I use this for nefarious purposes? Hmmm....

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  • A spontaneous re-enactment of Orson Welles' 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast unfolded Friday on microblogging site Twitter.



    Hundreds of tweets detailed a mock Martian invasion, with reports both panic-stricken and humorous.



    "Smoking,
    smoldering hunks of buildings, cars and people lay strewn about," wrote     one user, joshlewis. "The
    tripods have left the Warehouse District in ruins."     




    Another, iancanfield, wrote: "The freeways are packed! I've heard from a few stuck on 252 and 94, they are sitting ducks."

  • Twitter has been used to comment on national events and disseminate crucial information quickly during natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and earthquakes.
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