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Well to be 100 percent for certain.  This list that appeared on FreeRepublic isn’t the COMPLETE List of what they are monitoring.  But here it is for those that want it.  Thanks Steve McBride for bringing this document to my attention.
ABC News broke the story on their website over the christmas break.  “DHS Creates Accounts Solely to Monitor Social Networks,” by Olivia Katrandjian for ABC News, December 28, 2011 http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=15247533

Link to Original DHS Document: The Privacy Impact Assessment

List of webstites the DHS is monitoring

APPENDIX A
Social Media Web Sites Monitored by the NOC
This is a representative list of sites that the NOC will start to monitor in order to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture under this Initiative. Initial sites listed may link to other sites not listed. The NOC may also monitor those sites if they are within the scope of this Initiative.

Collecta
http://collecta.com

RSSOwl
http://www.rssowl.org/

Social Mention
http://socialmention.com/

Spy
http://www.spy.appspot.com

Who’s Talkin
http://www.whostalkin.com/

Shrook RSS reader
http://www.utsire.com/shrook/

Hulu
http://www.hulu.com

iReport.com
http://www.ireport.com/

Live Leak
http://www.liveleak.com/

Magma
http://mag.ma/

Time Tube
http://www.dipity.com/mashups/timetube

Vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com

Youtube
http://www.youtube.com

MySpace Video
http://vids.myspace.com/

Maps
Global Incident Map
http://globalincidentmap.com/

Google Flu Trends
http://www.google.org/flutrends/

Health Map
http://www.healthmap.org/en

IBISEYE
http://www.ibiseye.com/

Stormpulse
http://www.stormpulse.com/

Trends Map
http://www.trendsmap.com

Photos
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/

Picfog
http://picfog.com/

Twicsy
http://www.twicsy.com

Twitcaps
http://www.twitcaps.com

Twitter/API
Twitter/API
http://www.twitter.com

Twitter Search
Monitter
http://www.monitter.com/

Twazzup
http://www.twazzup.com
No
Tweefind
http://www.tweefind.com/
No
Tweetgrid
http://tweetgrid.com/
No
Tweetzi
http://tweetzi.com/
No
Twitter Search
http://search.twitter.com/advanced

Twitter Trends
Newspapers on Twitter
http://www.newspapersontwitter.com/

Radio on Twitter
http://www.radioontwitter.com/

Trendistic
http://trendistic.com/

Trendrr
http://www.trendrr.com/

TV on Twitter
http://www.tvontwitter.com/

Tweet Meme
http://tweetmeme.com/

TweetStats
http://tweetstats.com/

Twellow
http://www.twellow.com/

Twendz
http://twendz.waggeneredstrom.com/

Twitoaster
http://twitoaster.com/

Twitscoop
http://www.twitscoop.com/

Twitturly
http://twitturly.com/

We Follow
http://wefollow.com/

Facebook
It’s Trending
http://www.itstrending.com/news/

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com

MySpace
http://www.myspace.com

MySpace (limited search)
http://www.myspace.com

Blogs Aggs
ABCNews Blotter
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/

al Sahwa
http://al-sahwa.blogspot.com/

AllAfrica
http://allafrica.com/

Avian Flu Diary
http://afludiary.blogspot.com/

BNOnews
http://www.bnonews.com/

Borderfire
http://www.borderfirereport.net/

Report
Borderland Beat
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/

Brickhouse Security
http://blog.brickhousesecurity.com/

Chem.Info
http://www.chem.info/default.aspx

Chemical Facility Security News
http://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/

ComputerWorld Cybercrime Topic Center
http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/82/Cybercrime+and+Hacking

Counter-Terrorism Blog
http://www.counterterrorismblog.com/

Crisisblogger
http://crisisblogger.wordpress.com/

Cryptome
http://cryptome.org/

Danger Room
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/

Drudge Report
http://drudgereport.com/

El Blog Del Narco
http://elblogdelnarco.blogspot.com/

Emergency Management Magazine
http://www.emergencymgmt.com

Foreign Policy Passport
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/

Global Security Newswire
http://gsn.nti.org/gsn/

Global Terror Alert
http://www.globalterroralert.com/

Global Voices Network
http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/americas/haiti/

Google Blog Search
http://blogsearch.google.com

Guerra Contra El Narco
http://guerracontraelnarco.blogspot.com/

H5N1 Blog
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/

Homeland Security Today
http://www.hstoday.us/

Homeland Security Watch
http://www.hlswatch.com/

Huffington Post
http://huffingtonpost.com/

Hurricane Information Center
http://gustav08.ning.com/

HurricaneTrack
http://www.hurricanetrack.com/

InciWeb
http://www.inciweb.org/

Informed Comment
http://www.juancole.com/

Jihad Watch
http://www.jihadwatch.org/

Krebs on Security
http://krebsonsecurity.com/

LA Now
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/

LA Wildfires Blog
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/wildfires/

Livesay Haiti Blog
http://livesayhaiti.blogspot.com/

LongWarJournal
http://www.longwarjournal.org/

Malware Intelligence Blog
http://malwareint.blogspot.com/

MEMRI
http://www.memri.org/

MexiData.info
http://mexidata.info/

MS-13 News and Analysis
http://msthirteen.com/

Narcotrafico en Mexico
http://narcotraficoenmexico.blogspot.com/

National Defense Magazine
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org

National Terror Alert
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/

NEFA Foundation
http://www.nefafoundation.org/

Newsweek Blogs
http://blog.newsweek.com/

Nuclear Street
http://nuclearstreet.com/blogs/

NYTimes Lede Blog
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/

Plowshares Fund
http://www.ploughshares.org/news-analysis/blog

Popular Science Blogs
http://www.popsci.com/

Port Strategy
http://www.portstrategy.com/

Public Intelligence
http://publicintelligence.net/

ReliefWeb
http://www.reliefweb.int

RigZone
http://www.rigzone.com/

Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/

STRATFOR
http://www.stratfor.com/

Technorati
http://technorati.com/

Terror Finance Blog
http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/

The Latin Americanist
http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot.com/

Threat Level
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/

Threat Matrix
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/

Tickle the Wire
http://www.ticklethewire.com/

Tribuna Regional
http://latribunaregional.blogspot.com/

TruckingInfo.com
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/index.asp

United Nations IRIN
http://www.irinnews.org/

Ushahidi Haiti
http://haiti.ushahidi.org/

War on Terrorism
http://terrorism-online.blogspot.com/

WikiLeaks
http://wikileaks.org/

WireUpdate
http://wireupdate.com/ http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_pia_ops_publiclyavailablesocialmedia_update.pdf

UPDATE 01.16.2012 – The New York Times is carrying a piece, covering the Federal contractor that was paid to monitor social media for the Department of Homeland Security.  The article can be found here.