The US military mines social media for rich intelligence

Researchers and students at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California are developing tools to collect targeted data from social media. One piece of Twitter software is already in beta version, being used overseas. If it works as planned, it could change the face of modern intelligence-gathering by the military.

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[digivince]

Let's use keywords like bomb or terror or muslim in our tweets just to fuck with them.

[dudestube]

Watch "Birth of a word"

It's on TED.....absolutely incredible what they've been able to do tracking the birth of a social movement or interest in a particular topic. Actually, it is quite scary the implications of being able to map such events. It means terrible things for preventing Positive Social Change when Corporations may perceive such things as detrimental to their own interest.

[scootosan]

just another reason to not use Shitter I mean twitter

[Em Wang]

In a country where people are more divided than ever, more bankrupt than ever, and more hateful against its brothers and sisters where everyone is treated as a criminal before proven guilty -- do you really think that there's a need to worry about terrorists or war with other countries? The US is doing a fine job killing itself without the aid of their enemies so there's no real need for technology like this anymore.

[dudestube]

Heat maps and such were developed at MIT, I believe.