BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- A small group of "hyperactive" users are manipulating most of at least 46,000 Twitter accounts to promote the Islamic State (IS), a recent study said.
Between 500 and 2,000 "hyperactive" users tweet 545 to 2,000 posts each day, and most of the accounts tweet in Arabic, with only about one in five using English, according to a study entitled "The ISIS Twitter Census" published by the Washington D.C.-based Brookings Institute.
Most IS supporters were located within the territories where the IS operates, as well as Saudi Arabia, and they created their accounts in 2014, Al Jazeera quoted the study as saying on its website on Friday.
The study questioned the effectiveness of suspending IS-related accounts, saying it does not have concrete effects in limiting the reach and scope of the IS activities on social media.
Poster Comment:
Twitter run by an Israeli dual?