#FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to Study the Antecedents of ISIS Support

Understand

Within a fairly short amount of time, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has managed to put large swaths of land in Syria and Iraq under their control.

• To many observers, the sheer speed at which this "state" was established was dumbfounding.
• To better understand the roots of this organization and its supporters we present a study using data from Twitter.
• We start by collecting large amounts of Arabic tweets referring to ISIS and classify them into pro-ISIS and anti-ISIS.