Anonymous (Syrian youths) using twitter to spread false messages about Syria
Syrian youths are vigorously using the social networking site Twitter to spread news about protests.
Replicating other Arab uprisings, Syrias civil unrest movement has been vigorously using the social networking site Twitter.
But in the clamor for users to tell their up-to-the-minute stories, the actions of some Twitter users have raised questions about developments in Syria, according to a report by Al Arabiya TV.
A clash between the government and the opposition has made Twitter users notice something out of the ordinary.
An anonymous group has been trying to distort the use of the recurrently used hash tag Syria. Twitter users have claimed the unidentified group has been posting a series of false or old news to mislead readers.
In the world of Twitter, the hash tag is an essential part of the tweeting process. It is what connects users, their tweets, and allows them to follow news attached to particular hash tags. More broadly, if news or an event is popular among social media communities, their hash tags on Twitter will also be popular.
The groups tweets allegedly paint a rosy picture of Syria. Moreover, the groups posting contain contradictory claims that the situation in Syria is fine and that the country does not have any problems.
The question remains, what do these groups want to achieve by cluttering Twitter with inconsistent news?
Posters were posting their tweets every two minutes but after a group of Twitter activists confronted the underhanded users, a precautionary measure to reduce their posts has restricted their activity to one-intervals.
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