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.