A Sky News investigation has found that almost 30,000 Twitter accounts have been set up by IS sympathisers since the social network site declared it would try to stamp them out in the wake of the murder of James Foley.
In the first research of its kind, a unique analysis of the way Muslim extremists are using social media suggests sites are struggling to police postings effectively. Some 60,000 accounts expressing pro-jihadi views have been set up in total since May, the research found. And 27,000 of these were established after August 20 - the day after Islamic State posted the video of the beheading of the US journalist. In the 24 hours following the publication on Tuesday night of a video showing the murder of Steven Sotloff, 10% of all references to the video on the microblogging site were found to be positive.
Rotterdam, 03/09/2014-INC News
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