{"id":7057,"date":"2014-09-16T05:39:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T12:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:24:34","slug":"did-social-media-prolong-the-westgate-nairobi-seige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7057","title":{"rendered":"Did Social Media prolong the Westgate Nairobi seige?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[The Somalian originated terror group al-Shabaab (\"the Youth\") attacked\u00a0a Nairobi, Kenya shopping mall on September 21st, 2013 and it lasted until September 24th.\u00a0 At least sixty seven people died including four of the attackers.\u00a0 Additionally, over 175 people were injuried by mass shooting by the gunmen.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Westgate-Mall-attackers.jpg\" alt=\"mall attackers\" \/>\nMany Twitter users were giving live real-time updates for the duration of the seige.\u00a0 One particular pair of tweets included photos purporting to be of the attackers (but later discovered to be Kenyan police forces.)\u00a0 Those two tweets saw over 80 re-tweets in just under 30 minutes.\u00a0 After two days,\u00a0the two twitter posts\u00a0were removed by law\u00a0enforcement requests.\nBetween September 21 and 25th, Kenya Police tweeted approximately 570 times while al-Shabaab tweeted about 260 times.\u00a0 The real\u00a0takeaway is that an audit by Israeli experts revealed over 67,849 tweets over four days from bystanders may have put the lives of first responders at serious risk.\nOne news site comment by\u00a0alias &#8220;paidpaipa&#8221; pointedly exclaimed, &#8220;&#8230;Assuming each twit took 1 minute to compose and post, then our police (yaani IG Kimaiyo) wasted 569 minutes, and Lenku {current\u00a0Cabinet Secretary of Kenya}\u00a0burnt 1533 minutes&#8230;.2102 minutes in 4 days. That&#8217;s a whole 35 hours within the 96 hours the siege lasted. You tell me, how many lives could have been saved if someone was actually in the war room making life saving decisions?&#8221;]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"2","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practices","category-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7929,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}