Out of total worldwide population is 7.7 billion, the population connected to internet has 4.4 billion users, out of this there are 3.499 billion active social media users and on average, people have 7.6 social media accounts and the average daily time spent on social is 142 minutes a day and the users of social media users grew by 202 million between April 2018 and April 2019 and this works out at a new social media user every 6.4 seconds. Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp handle 60 billion messages a day.
It is a fact of the internet that every click, every view and every sign-up is recorded somewhere. This is really an eye opening for the law enforcement agencies insights on various threats ranging from terrorist activity to foreign intelligence. The challenge is accessing and analyzing the massive amount of data in an effective, efficient and appropriate way.
We come across all sorts of interesting stats about social media platforms and users, so we’ve collated the best of them in this bumper facts list. And it comes as a great fact sheet to give context to your social media marketing efforts. The FBI issued a request for proposals for a subscription-based social media alerting tool that will filter and evaluate big data from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms while ensuring privacy and civil liberties compliance requirements are met.
The alerting system should provide email notifications on any updates relevant to missions. Additionally, it should be able to filter content by subjects, identifiers, geographic location, keywords, and photographic tags to allow for easy and fast access to information.
There are chances of with the use of social media by terrorist groups, domestic threats, criminal organizations and foreign intelligence services, the FBI "needs near real time access to a full range of social media exchanges in order to obtain the most current information available," according to the request for proposal.
In addition to information such as user IDs, the feds are interested in "emails, IP addresses, telephone numbers, and likely aliases" used over social media. The tool would also allow for location-based tracking, persistent keyword monitoring, and access to one's personal social media history.
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