“Government reports of violations related to the promotion of terrorism represent less than 0.2% of all suspensions in the most recent reporting period,” Twitter claimed – reflecting a 50% reduction in reports compared to the previous six months. They included 274,460 suspended accounts in the second half of 2017, which were down 8.4 percent from the previous reporting period and the second consecutive period “in which we’ve seen a drop in the number of accounts being suspended for this reason,” Twitter said in a blog post covering its 12th biannual “transparency report.”

Twitter also said 74 percent of the accounts involved in the latest reporting period “were suspended before their first tweet.”

“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,” the company said. Twitter said that 93 percent of the 274,460 accounts suspended in the last half of 2017 “were flagged by (the company’s) internal, proprietary tools” and that government reports of such violations accounted for only 0.2 percent of all suspensions.
Twitter announces the suspension of 1.2 million terror-linked accounts since 2015.