The rise of non-state actors and globalization in the international system presents clear challenges to the historical methodology on power, legitimacy, and decision making. Terrorist groups like ISIS have since found new means to establish legitimacy in their control and power. Among their most successful techniques is the use of social media, particularly Twitter, to recruit and spread propaganda. Social network analysis and text analysis can provide frameworks to uncover why ISIS uses Twitter and can identify key trends in how they reach prosperity so an attempt at countering their momentum can be made. In this research, tweets pertaining to ISIS are analyzed in the hope to investigate how networks like the ISIS Twitter Network change through time. Click different variables to explore the visualization
