Twitter Says It Suspended 10,000 ISIS-Linked Accounts in One Day

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It's too bad that all their Twitter accounts couldn't be closed.

Twitter Says It Suspended 10,000 ISIS-Linked Accounts in One Day
By RICK GLADSTONEAPRIL 9, 2015

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  • Activists and experts who monitor the Twitter traffic of the Islamic State and its supporters noticed something odd last week when many accounts suddenly disappeared.

The activists exchanged messagesabout the missing accounts, suspecting they had been suspended.

On Thursday, a Twitter representative confirmed what some were saying and put a number on it. The social media network’s violations department suspended approximately 10,000 accounts on April 2 “for tweeting violent threats,” the representative said.

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