Twitter announced Thursday that it had cut off 235,000 accounts during the past six months in a heightened crackdown on use of the global messaging service to promote violent extremist causes.

The suspensions raised to 360,000 the total number of accounts sidelined since the middle of 2015 and was helping "drive meaningful results" in curbing the activity, according to the San Francisco-based company.

See The Guy Who Got Banned For Abusing A Black Celebrity, And How His Followers Took Revenge http://www.techkibay.com/2016/07/twitter-on-fire-as-milo-yiannopoulos-got-banned.html

Twitter has been striving to balance protecting free speech at the one-to-many messaging service with not providing a stage for extremist groups to spread violent messages and enlist people to their causes.

[size=14pt]Don't forget that the twitter account of the Niger Delta Avengers was also deleted[/size]: http://www.techkibay.com/2016/07/twitter-deactivates-niger-delta-account.html

Apart form terrorism, do you remember when Government Of Ethiopia Blocked Facebook, Instagram, Twitter And Viber! All In The Name of Exam?

finally someone got it that promoting hateful speech is not freedom of speech.
I hope those who threatened to make Nigeria ungovernable for the former president would be investigated rather than being celebrated. just a piece of my mind, a piece of mind!