Twitter shuts 125,000 terror-related accounts: Twitter chief Jack Dorsey
02 Jun 2016
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the social media company has shut down 125,000 accounts related to terrorism.
Speaking at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California yesterday, Dorsey said ''we're being very aggressive in shutting these accounts down. We get help from governments all over the world in pointing out these accounts,'' reported CNBC.
According to the Twitter co-founder, safety was one of the company's top five priorities for the year. The company was also adding to measures to protect individuals from the abuse, he added.
Rishi Jaitly, vice president for Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa at Twitter said the platform was ''built for the LIVE experiences.''
According to Jaitly who spoke to CNBC at RISE 2016, better internet connectivity in Asia had made the region ready for live video streaming.
Under a deal struck with KKBOX, one of Asia's leading music streaming services, Twitter would bring Chinese pop music or C-Pop to a wider, global audience.
Users would be able to view live content on their Twitter account by using the hashtag #OnlyOnTwitter. The hashtag would allow KKBOX to publish live content on users' accounts, which would include weekly Q&A sessions with artists, autographed video clips from musicians and producers, and live broadcasting of C-Pop concerts via Periscope, according to the report.
Dorsey shared the stage with activist and Black Lives Matter member Deray Mckesson, whom he had met during the Ferguson protests in 2014 that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer. Ferguson, a part of the greater St. Louis area, Dorsey's hometown.
Mckesson, a power Twitter user counts 366,000 followers and is a big fan of the service.
However, Mckesson had plenty of issues with the service, and one was that he took a lot of abuse and had to block each person individually. He added that he had blocked 19,000 to date.
"I get death threats," he said. "That's not a fun experience."
