New Twitter Application from the Islamic State

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi  •  Mar 30, 2015 at 10:01 am

Over the course of April to June 2014, one of the ways the Islamic State boosted its Twitter presence was through the use of an application known as the 'Dawn of Glad Tidings', created by a Palestinian in Gaza and designed to tweet out official releases from the Islamic State automatically and hijack hashtags, helping to game the system on Twitter and inflate the group's presence. Now a successor-style application has come out known as "Cheap Juice 3." The first picture below explains: "This application to support the Islamic State helps to publish unified tweets that aim to publish new releases and attack enemy hashtags."

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