IntelligentEye Blog

It was recently reported on Wired.com's DangerRoom blog, that US intelligence officers are looking to monitor social media in order to make better use of readily available, open source intelligence.

 

By monitoring blog posts, tweets and other forms of social media where people can post their thoughts and ideas, intelligence officers hope to be able to read people's reactions to global incidents and to be better prepared to tackle large-scale, planned events. 

 

The scope and usefulness of online intelligence monitoring is fast becoming a key talking point, with various communities finding new and varied uses for the technology. Online monitoring is a powerful tool that can be used to meet the needs of any company, agency or business, so you don't need to be the CIA to take advantage of it. Monitoring can address a variety of needs, from monitoring global terrorist activity, right down to finding out which discussion forums a given brand or persons name appears in.