The army has apparently done research to determine if Twitter is a terrorist opportunity waiting to happen. The report also talks about using VoiP and mobile phones with GPS and photo or video capabilities.

The fear is that the terrorists will use Twitter and other real time apps to inform the others of police presence or activity. The use of camera and video imaging, combined with the GPS capabilities of many phones, will also allow them to follow along and perhaps stay out of jail.

Then the presentation launches into an even-more theoretical discussion of how militants might pair some of these mobile applications with Twitter, to magnify their impact. After all, “Twitter was recently used as a countersurveillance, command and control, and movement tool by activists at the Republican National Convention,” the report notes.”The activists would Tweet each other and their Twitter pages to add information on what was happening with Law Enforcement near real time.”

I would think that if terrorists really needed a way to get in touch with each other, the often unreliable Twitter would be pretty low on their list.

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