Terror threat and social media

The 2015 report issued by social media agency We Are Social South Africa revealed that there are 85-million active social media users in Africa.

Take that figure and cross-reference it with the United Nations’s statistic of 20% of the African population being aged between 15 and 24 and, boom! we have 17-million youths using social media in Africa. 

If you could target only 1% of that, you would have 170 000 followers and, if equally split, you would have 3 148 followers in each African country.

That becomes 3 148 possible targets of radicalisation, recruitment practices and people to train.

Today's terrorists are as social media-savvy as any marketer