The Twitter War Between the Taliban And U.S. Forces

Twitter War With The Taliban -- CNN

Bits of information - not just bullets and bombs - are in the thick of the fighting in Afghanistan.

U.S. forces feared they were losing the information war to the Taliban and now are fighting back with Twitter - using those brisk 140-character messages to get out the other side of the story.

"The Taliban were just constantly putting out false information and propaganda," said Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings. "Some of it was so wrong we finally had to start engaging, and backing up our information with the facts"

This new reliance on all social media is quick and cheap.

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Update #1: U.S. forces in 'Twitter' war with Taliban -- UPI
Update #2: ISAF, Taliban wage a webby word war -- Stars and Stripes

My Comment: This is not warfare .... I call this "blowing off steam".

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