The ISIS Twitter census: defining and describing the population of ISIS supporters on Twitter

By J. M. Berger, J. Morgan. 2015

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Ugur Kursuncu
2. Manas Gaur
3. Amit P. Sheth
4. Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
5. Amanuel Alambo
6. Carlos Castillo
7. Ismailcem Budak Arpinar
8. Valerie L. Shalin

Citations in the corpus

• Online Human-Bot Interactions: Detection, Estimation, and Characterization (2017, background): “Some emulate human behavior to manufacture fake grassroots political support (Ratkiewicz et al. 2011), promote terrorist propaganda and recruitment (Berger and Morgan 2015; Abokhodair, Yoo, and Mc-Donald 2015; Ferrara et al. 2016c), manipulate the stock market (Ferrara et al. 2016a), and…”
• Modeling Islamist Extremist Communications on Social Media using Contextual Dimensions (2019, background): “, ISIS supporters had higher activity than 67% of all Twitter users) [14].”
• Arming the public with artificial intelligence to counter social bots (2019, unknown): “By analyzing a sample of 20,000 ISIS-supporting accounts, Berger and Morgan (2015) found that that the terrorist organization was actively using social media and bots to spread its ideology.”