On April 3, 2014, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), a prominent media company that is associated with Al-Qaeda, announced the opening of an official account on Twitter.
In its brief statement, which was published on the Shumoukh Al-Islam forum in Arabic, English, Urdu, and Indonesian, GIMF said that the account (@J_Eielamiya) was the only official Twitter account for the group, and asked people to follow it.
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