US Department Of Homeland Security Wants To Start Using Twitter For Threat Intelligence

Forget celebrity gossip and tracking weather patterns – the US Department of Homeland Security sees Twitter as a potential goldmine of intelligence pertaining to possible domestic threats. The question is, how do you find the gold nuggets buried in the rubble?

Anyone following the news in the past year or so will have heard about how Twitter and other social networks played a big part in the Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East. And while its exact impact is debatable, the DHS believes that these events have shocked world leaders into giving the little network a little more credit.