ISIS Twitter accounts numbering at least 235,000 have been suspended, according to a report submitted by the social network on August 18. Twitter is also planning to roll out a set of "proprietary anti-spam software that will allow users to control the kind of tweet they received.
It took Twitter at least six months to suspend that many accounts, according to the Daily Mail. Most of the suspensions occurred every time a terrorist attack occurred. The total number of suspended ISIS related Twitter accounts have reached around 360,000 since the last year.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation lauded Twitter when it started weeding out and hampering one of the terrorist organization's means of communication with the outside world. The social messaging service said that it has always tried to balance the right of its users and its obligation to the authorities.
Law enforcement authorities are concerned regarding the ease in which ISIS used the social network as a means to air their propaganda and message of violence. European authorities estimate that ISIS posted more than a hundred thousand tweets daily.
These daily tweets have made the terrorist organization appear bigger than it looks, according to a number of anti-terrorist experts. They also have posted videos that are quite gruesome that intend to incite hatred among its followers.
The hacker group Anonymous has also joined in the online fight against ISIS. However, the terror group has dismissed the group as a bunch of "idiots". It is interesting to note that ISIS has its own Islamic Cyber Army that it can use for its online activities and possibly against Anonymous and other government and private groups.
Meanwhile, Twitter is rolling out a new set of filters that will give users the option of seeing tweets from Twitter posts that they actually follow, according to NBC News. Users can now remove spam and duplicates using the new filter software.
