California, April 7: According to the 12th biannual Twitter transparency report, it has removed 1.2 million accounts for promoting terrorism since August 2015. Reportedly, 74% Twitter accounts were banned before making their first tweet.
The social network said the figure for the second half of 2017 was down 8.4 percent from the first half of last year, marking the second consecutive reporting period to see a decline.
Twitter added that 93 percent of the accounts suspended during the second half of last year were flagged by internal, proprietary tools, and 74 percent were suspended before sending a single tweet.
According to the Twitter Public Policy team, government reports of violations related to the promotion of terrorism accounted for less than 0.2 percent of account suspensions during the last six months of 2017, about one-half the percentage in the previous reporting period.
The social network said in a blog post introducing its 12th biannual Twitter Transparency Report, “We continue to see the positive, significant impact of years of hard work making our site an undesirable place for those seeking to promote terrorism, resulting in this type of activity increasingly shifting away from Twitter.”