Nothing discussed and writing here isn't published in some form already. This list below is where some of my ideas are pulled from. Most are dated, but whether the article, forum, PDF or white paper discusses the success, failures or political roll out and/or fall out for each of them. It provides me with ideas of how to use online sites, analyze social media, and what could be added to my tool bag. Most analyst don't look at OSINT, like any intelligence or information gathering platform, but really needs to be viewed as a tool in your toolbag. Here is a general break down of my information, good or bad links, that is for the eye of the beholder. This shows you on the social media side of the house, when to paint that picture it becomes valuable. I see social media as a great tool for us to be using, exploitating, analyzing and collecting from.
Iranian dissident groups exposed Iranian enrichment program evidence of an enrichment site.
http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/20...secret-nuke-s/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...orted/3625929/
Social media opportunities and challenges for open source information.
http://www.trajectorymagazine.com/de...307-OSINT.html
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-...-u-s-military/
http://resources.infosecinstitute.co...litary-sector/
http://www.csoonline.com/article/734...other-channels
http://academics.utep.edu/Portals/18...%20(Lyons).pdf
Examples of pulling data and using it.
http://analysisintelligence.com/tag/osint-2/
Militant/terrorist group Increasingly Using Social Media to Communicate
http://freebeacon.com/twitter-used-t...rist-messages/
http://www.securityaffairs.org/issue...08/weimann.php
http://www.pixelsandpolicy.com/pixel...terrorism.html
And the least favorite but very resourceful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_and_social_media
How activism, hacktivism, and cyberterrorist use SM
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand...MR1382.ch8.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4568.pdf
Tanzania Green Revolution:
http://content.time.com/time/world/a...905125,00.html
Iranian Green Movement
http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...olution/58337/
http://www.scmagazine.com/iran-elect...rticle/138545/
Haitian Earthquake Relief:
http://mashable.com/2010/01/20/socia...lessons-haiti/
http://www2012.wwwconference.org/pro...anion/p713.pdf
Kosovo Conflict
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...BS1COhNYszLKrA
OODA Loop used to analyze Social Media
http://fabiusmaximus.com/2012/10/26/ooda-loops-44522/
http://www.researchgate.net/publicat...c2965a1d73.pdf
We don't teach this way of thinking, it is a small few that can think of how cyber, social media, internet all play into OSINT for operations. Which becomes a tool in the toolbag for intelligence or information gathering platform as with any one of the disciplines. Aa a analysts we must look or find non-traditional information tools like OSINT and social media in making causative linkages on the battlefield of your hypothesis. However, when OSINT or specificity social media used as intended, as part of a holistic picture, and within the purpose for which they were developed as a communication platform. Looking at social media as a non-traditional intelligence disciplines, such as OSINT, it is just as valuable as SIGINT, HUMINT, MASINT, ELINT, etc. We need a discussion on this topic to devolve dialog, simulate thought on how to use it and it's employment in painting the picture and providing assessments to Commanders. Otherwise, keep kicking doors and thinking you will be shooting someone in the face. That mindset is being forced to go away, so as we use to say, "Start thinking outside of the box" or really your sights.