US wages Twitter war against Taliban

The U.S. military launched its Twitter campaign during a September assault on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. It’s hard to say who is winning the war of words. If the number of followers is the benchmark, @isafmedia is far ahead. Over the past year, the number of users following the coalition has swelled from 736 to nearly 18,000. The two Taliban accounts — @alemarahweb, which mainly links to press releases and official statements, and the more pugnacious @ABalkhi — have just over 9,000 combined. ... Continue reading this article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/us-military-taliban-use-twitter-to-wage-war/2011/12/16/gIQAKnJ32O_story.html