{"id":4787,"date":"2011-12-13T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2011-12-13T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:47:00","slug":"quick-note-tweet-and-riposte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4787","title":{"rendered":"Quick note &#8212; tweet and riposte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; on warfare and social media ]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-shabaab1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4794\" title=\"SPEC shabaab\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-shabaab1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-shabaab1.png 603w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-shabaab1-294x300.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Al-Shabaab<\/strong>&#8216;s media wing now has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hyCIiZGs_Jfai6Sov3EaV6KBad3w?docId=0d16f70dd7434a2bbec4e76ed2039f81\">twitter interlocutor<\/a> from the <strong>Kenyan Army<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>as the <strong>Islamic Emirate<\/strong> (Afghan Taliban) <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4618\">does<\/a> from the <strong>ISAF<\/strong> Press Office:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-isaf-talib11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4791\" title=\"SPEC-isaf-talib1\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-isaf-talib11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-isaf-talib11.png 580w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/SPEC-isaf-talib11-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this just &#8220;silliness&#8221;, as @<a title=\"Rory Medcalf\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/Rory_Medcalf\" data-user-id=\"17668544\">Rory_Medcalf<\/a> tweeted &#8212; or is there something <strong>fresh and with potential<\/strong> going on?\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking of richer social media initiatives, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2011\/11\/interview-with-a-taliban-insider-irans-game-in-afghanistan\/248294\/\"><strong>Leah Farrall<\/strong>&#8216;s conversations with <strong>Abu Walid<\/strong><\/a>, here, too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[by Charles Cameron &#8212; on warfare and social media ] . Al-Shabaab&#8216;s media wing now has a twitter interlocutor from the Kenyan Army\u2026 as the Islamic Emirate (Afghan Taliban) does from the ISAF Press Office: Is this just &#8220;silliness&#8221;, as @Rory_Medcalf tweeted &#8212; or is there something fresh and with potential going on?\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,191,526,134,346,650,483,388,562,473,268,687,393,18],"tags":[1257],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytic","category-anthropology","category-charles-cameron","category-computers","category-connectivity","category-dialog","category-extremists","category-innovation","category-perception","category-propaganda","category-social-networks","category-specs","category-twitter","category-war","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}