Twitter has once again cleansed its servers of thousands of Islamic State (ISIS)-related accounts, citing the "violent threats" the group has launched on the social media platform and citing a "large amount of reports" over jihadist activity, according to a representative.
18,800 accounts had been shuttered in 2014 and January of this year, a step experts said was "the tip of the iceberg."
On Friday, Twitter revealed it had chipped away another part of ISIS's social media campaigning, deleting another 10,000 accounts in a single day earlier this month, according to the Daily Mail. While Twitter's interface data is not public, if true, the deletions would mark the biggest one-day data purge in Twitter history.
Experts predict that Twitter could be home from anywhere from 45,000 to 90,000 jihadists - all of them using the social networking site as a recruiting and propaganda tool.
Twice, jihadists have threatened Twitter employees due to the shutdowns.
In October 2014, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo stated that he and his staff had been personally threatened over shutdowns; in September 2014, a Jerusalem-based cell of the ISIS threatened to kill Twitter employees and target its offices if the social media site does not stop closing down ISIS accounts.