A Storm On The Horizon? ‘Twister’ And The Implications Of The Blockchain And Peer To Peer Social Networks For Online Violent Extremism
September 18, 2023
“Twister,” developed by Miguel Freitas, is a social network platform centered around micro-blogging, much like Twitter. However, rather than relying on centralized servers owned and maintained by a single firm, Twister users operate a block chain combined with distributed hash table (DHT)–like and BitTorrent-like protocols to both make posts and send private messages, and also ...