Twitter announced that it permanently suspended 274,460 accounts for violations related to the promotion of terrorism between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2017, bringing its total from Aug. 1, 2015, through year-end 2017 to 1,210,357.
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
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