Social media intelligence 

SPECIAL - Can Law Enforcement Detect Radicalization Before An Individual Turns Violent?

Combining social media intelligence with covert intelligence paints a much clearer picture of the world than either open source or clandestinely acquired information could on their own. In addition to being a source of intelligence in and of itself, OSINT offers supplemental data to classified information to help corroborate or disprove theories. The most actionable social media data is that which is geo-located. Social media posts, tweets, comments and pictures that are tagged with GPS coordinates are highly actionable for several reasons: 1) they give context to dates and times in addition to exact locations; 2) they provide precise situational awareness; and 3) they provide the exact whereabouts of posters – which can be as specific as which corner of a house a person may be hiding in.