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# It all started on social media: terror in Norway
- URL: https://interhacktives.mymagic.page/it-all-started-on-social-media-terror-in-norway/
- Published: 2012-01-02T17:26:40.000Z
- Updated: 2012-01-02T17:26:40.000Z
- Description: Update Sunday 24 July 2011 : At least 86 young people were killed Friday at youth camp on Utoeya, Norway, shot by a 32-year-old native Norwegian. Seven more died in a bombing in Oslo. Here are some first and second-hand accounts as well as traditional news reports.
- Author: Tim Owen
- Tags: Events, Breivik, social media, Utøya, #Migrated-1793717950415, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-11-03 14:59

On 17 July 2011, a 32-year-old Norwegian, Anders Behring Breivik, created a Twitter account to broadcast [a single gnomic tweet](http://storyful.com/stories/1000016839?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page):

> “One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100 000 who have only interests.”

Five days later, on Friday 22 July 2011, Breivik posted a YouTube video, which [Storyful contributor Gavin Sheridan](http://storyful.com/stories/1000005656?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page) describes as: “a mishmash of anti-Islamic propaganda and a digested version of Breivik’s manifesto”. The video has since been removed from YouTube but reposted on [a TwitVid webpage](http://www.twitvid.com/EXJWW?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page).

Sheridan also links to the manifesto, “2083 A European Declaration of Independence”, in which Breivik casts himself as a Knight Templar. [He later claimed](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/29/norway-attacks-memorial-services-victims?INTCMP=SRCH&ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page) to be part of an anti-Muslim network plotting a string of attacks across Europe, though investigators believe he acted alone in the events that followed.

Later that day Breivik detonated a bomb targeting government buildings in central Oslo and went on a shooting spree at a youth summer camp organized by Norway’s ruling Labour party on Utøya Island. He killed 77 people.

Among the first-hand accounts from Utøya, amid desperate tweets and Facebook messages, [Adrian Pracon’s testimony to the BBC](<p>Update Sunday 24 July 2011 : At least 86 young people were killed Friday at youth camp on Utoeya, Norway, shot by a 32-year-old native Norwegian. Seven more died in a bombing in Oslo. Here are some first and second-hand accounts as well as traditional news reports. </p>
http://storify.com/kegill/at-least-81-die-in-norwegian-massacre) suggests the horror and confusion:

> “I then heard gun shots and could see people running. As they were running, they were shot in the back. People were falling dead right in front of me. I ran through the campus to the tent area. I saw the gunman - two people started to talk to him and two seconds later they were both shot.”

Storify user [Kathy E Gill](<p>Update Sunday 24 July 2011 : At least 86 young people were killed Friday at youth camp on Utoeya, Norway, shot by a 32-year-old native Norwegian. Seven more died in a bombing in Oslo. Here are some first and second-hand accounts as well as traditional news reports. </p>
http://storify.com/kegill/at-least-81-die-in-norwegian-massacre) records how a Facebook update summoned help from boats on the fjord, saving at least two lives, as desperate youths attempted a desperate swim from Utøya to the mainland.

Within hours of the shootings the inevitable fake Twitter account was set up in the name of “[@AndersBBreivik](http://twitter.com/?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page#%21/AndersBBreivik) Anders B. Breivik”, and a single Tweet posted:

> "Please download the updated version of my Manifest: 2083 - A European Declaration of Independence : [api.ge.tt/0/9E7jLS6/0/bl…](http://t.co/k26GNtL?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page) [#NORIA](http://twitter.com/?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page#%21/search?q=%23NORIA)"

The download, a crude ‘screw you’ to morbid web surfers or perhaps just a bad joke, follows a mocked-up front page with a string of cat snaps. The account currently has 79 listings and 3,503 followers.

A mirror of Breivik's actual Facebook Page has apparently been preserved, in all its banality, on the [Public Intelligence](http://publicintelligence.net/mirror-of-ut%C3%B8ya-gunman-anders-behring-breiviks-facebook-page-and-photo-gallery/?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page) blog.

But neither Breivik nor social media’s bottom crawlers should have the last word on this story.

Gill’s Storify pieces together tweets from one of Breivik‘s victims, Marte G. Ødegården, aka. @miniodegarden, who was shot in the back but survived. On Dec 30th 2011, Ødegården tweeted (here translated, impeccably no doubt, by Google Translate):

> "Thanking all the Twitter people for this year's massive support and concern. Sets the incredible price on it. I hope everyone has a wonderful 2012."