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Tweeting From the Front Line
blackbearnh writes "There's an interesting article up on O'Reilly Radar talking about how the US military is reacting to the increasing use of social media by soldiers in hostile territory. In an interview, Price Floyd, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, talks about the trade-offs between operational security and allowing soldiers and the public to interact, and how social media has changed the way the DoD communicates with the public. 'I think that we need to become much more comfortable with taking risk, much more comfortable with having multiple spokesmen out there, thousands of spokesmen in essence. But, for me, there's nothing more credible than the men and women who are out there on the front lines, fighting the wars that we're in, sending messages back to their family and friends.'"
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With some sort of Algorithm could one not track troop movements and strengths then?
Yes its a simple algorithm, go to news.google.com and search for "afghanistan troop strengths"
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
tedstriker: @elainedickinson: After I get back I'll meet you in the armoury. The code to get in is 66537, I'll bring the condoms.
Okay, guts are coming out.
You mean "Loose Tweets Sinks Fleets" like in this poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctabu/3657942692/
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