A Monitoring Tool for Terrorism-Related Key-Players and Key-Communities in Social Media Networks

Terrorists communicate and disseminate their activitiesusing social media, such as Twitter, where complex networksof user accounts are formed and need to be effectively analysedby Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). To this end, we proposea novel visualisation tool that assists intelligence analysts andinvestigators through the presentation of the network formation,components, key-players, key-communities and through supportof keyword search in the terrorism domain, highlighting alsosuspended users and offering navigation in the user network.