Terrorists could use 'Twitter' too, says U.S. report. They know, they're watching.

A recent United States Army intelligence report explained the possible manipulation of social-networking and communication tools, more specifically Twitter, by terrorist groups to execute terrorist activity. The report detailed three different scenario’s where Twitter, combined with other services available to mobile devices, could enhance the execution of terrorism.

Irony at its best. Facebook, My Space, Twitter, are all publicly accessible services specifically designed to make communication easier between people. It allows people to ‘network’ and establish groups with others that share similar interests or ideas. So then what are terrorist if not just another 'social group' of people with similar interests? They seem to be using social-networking tools in the same way supporters of political campaigns are in the presidential election, to share ideas easily with like-minded people. If the internet is going to be a publicly accessible tool, then it should not be a surprise when social groups with ideas that differ from our own take advantage of its convenience too.

The scariest part of the report to me was that the U.S. government had not detected any terrorist activity on Tweeter yet, although they had picked up several pro-Hezbollah Tweets...meaning they must be watching all of us on these sites. I guess our right to privacy of beliefs protected by the first amendment of the Bill of Rights does not extend to Tweeter.