Tweets: The Taliban extended its propaganda effort online by sending its first tweet in English on Thursday. Image from The Daily Mail
Forget Osama’s Diary: Taliban Now Tweeting in English -- The Danger Room
Social media clearly played a role in the Arab Spring movement. Now let’s see if it advances the agenda of … the Taliban?
Yes, the Taliban — which, The Guardian notes with proper British deadpan irony, tried to return Afghanistan to the Stone Age — is now using the very 21st-century invention Twitter to share its message in English, the language of the infidels it hopes to vanquish.
The account in question, @alemarahweb, has been active for five months. Its bio is in English, sort of (“The official website of islamic emirat of afghanistan”), and it exists mainly to share links to full stories on its websites.
By the way, nice touch, Taliban: Stories are accompanied by Facebook Share button.
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