The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has captured several towns and cities in Iraq, but the Sunni terror group's progress could be threatened due to social media. "Secret" strategies about ISIS have allegedly leaked on Twitter, from veiled associations to conspiratorial plots.

The twitter handle is @wikibaghdady. It is unknown who's behind the account, but there are rumors that it is a former ISIS member currently in Syria. The twitter account first appeared after a jihadist battle in Syria where ISIS developed a ruthless approach against other Islamist factions.

The validity of the account is mixed, but credible information has been confirmed after @wikibaghdady's tweets, such as ISIS's association with Saddam Hussein's Baathists party.

Tweets from @wikibaghdady were translated by Yousef Bin Tashfin. Tweets included:

Dec. 14, 2013: "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a real person who has a fake nickname and title. This is also the case with everyone around him and there isn't a member of Al-Baghdadi's inner circle with a real name. Every person in Al-Baghdadi's inner circle is 100% Iraqi and he doesn't accept any other nationality because he does not trust anyone. The number of members in the Al-Baghdadi's military council is about 8 to 13 people. The Military Council is headed by three people from Saddam's army who also belonged to the former Baath Party. The main leader is Brigadier General Haji Bakr who was previously an officer in Saddam's Baathist army. Who exactly is Haji Bakr?! What is his relationship to Al-Baghdadi and when did it start?" 

Dec. 15, 2013: "As mentioned previously, the Military Council is headed by three people from Saddam's army who also belonged to the former Baath Party. The main leader is Brigadier General Haji Bakr who was previously an officer in Saddam's Baathist army. General Haji Bakr first met Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi when he offered his services to him due to having experience in Saddam's Baathist army. He demonstrated his dedication to him and he is now considered to be one of the closest to him. However, Haji Bakr didn't have any previous jihadi experience before that."

Jan. 19, 2014: "There were about twenty to thirty fighters who split from the ISIS on a daily basis. They found that fighters from Saudi Arabia were the most likely to split and that Tunisians were the least. This is when he ordered that the suicide bombers should be Saudi as much as possible, and that Tunisians shouldn't be involved since they're the most loyal. He also tried gaining more fighters but wasn't successful at all. "

"Whoever @wikibaghdady is, two things about him are clear: He's a fellow Islamist who has a beef with ISIS, and he's someone close to the group, providing the kind of details that only come from intimacy," wrote Jacob Siegel for The Daily Beast.

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ISIS has also taken to Twitter to display its actions in Iraq. The terror group posted photos of an alleged mass killing of Iraqi soldiers. ISIS has also used an Arabic-language Twitter app named The Dawn of Glad Tidings to promote the latest news about the group. The app was created in April and postings peaked at 40,000 tweets in one day, coinciding with the group's seize of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.

ISIS's development has been considered "organic," with hundreds to perhaps thousands of activists taking to social media to promote specific hashtags. The Arabic Twitter account @ActiveHashtags has also helped trend ISIS's tweets due to the high number of retweets.

According to The Atlantic, hashtags from or about ISIS have outperformed its primary Syrian competitor Jabhat al-Nusra.

"In data I analyzed in February, ISIS often registered more than 10,000 mentions of its hashtag per day, while the number of al-Nusra mentions generally ranged between 2,500 and 5,000," wrote author of "Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam" and IntelWire.com editor J.M. Berger.

In the previous week, Twitter has suspended several accounts with alleged affiliations with ISIS. One of the suspended accounts was @Nnewsi, which reported updates on ISIS's advancements in Iraq, as well as @w_raqqa. It isn't the first time Twitter suspended the account of a terror organization. Twitter previously suspended Al Shabaah accounts that live tweeted the attack at Kenya's West Gate mall last September.

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