Thousands of accounts leaked from the social network last week . Twitter said it had received numerous reports about terror - promoting users . Decided to list online accounts for making threats of violence . these were almost certainly linked to a campaign by ' anonymous ' collective Anonymous targeting online users .
Thousands of accounts vanished from the social network last week . Twitter said it had received numerous reports about terror-promoting users . Decided to suspend 10,000 accounts for making threats of violence . Suspensions were almost certainly linked to a campaign by 'hacktavist ' collective Anonymous targeting online jihadis .