Monitor Terror on Twitter
By Shalini Singh

Will a terrorist tweet his terror plans?  Will an extremist update his Facebook account as a signal for an attack?  Are blogs being used by bomb makers?  Equally importantly, can police monitor new media to help save innocent people trapped in hotels when terrorists strike?

The US Department of Homeland Security believes so.  ABC is reporting

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As the winter Olympics begin, the Department of Homeland Security has disclosed that it will be monitoring the comments and posts on websites and social media like Twitter for information on possible terror threats. Among the sites listed in a privacy impact statement filed Friday afternoon by DHS are the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, Twitter, Google and this web site, the Blotter.

The National Operations Center of DHS will watch the web for information, according to the statement, to "provide situational awareness" in the event of natural disaster, an "act of terrorism, or other manmade disaster."
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