Terrorist groups may now have a harder time using Twitter as a platform for radical activities.
For years, terrorists groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Qaeda have used social media sites including Twitter and Facebook, to spread extremist messages, recruit followers, and call on sympathizers in the West to commit acts of violence at home.
A study by the Brookings Institution estimated that from September through December 2014, at least 46,000 Twitter accounts were used by ISIS supporters, though not all were active at the same time.
But Twitter is now vowing to crack down on such radical messages.
The company announced Friday that it had suspended 125,000 Twitter accounts associated with extremism since the middle of 2015, making it the first time it has publicized the number of accounts it has suspended, according to New York Times.
