The ISIS or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, has been sending terror all over the world by forcefully occupying several towns in Syria and Iraq or beheading some of their captives. Last month, they were able to capture Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Iraq and massacred a large number of Yazidis. Now, the terrorist organization are also sending horror to Twitter.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed that ISIS is intimidating his company and his employees after they shut down the militant group's account. Muslim militants were using the micro-blogging site to send their message. By doing this, Costolo said that some ISIS members are threatening to kill Twitter staff.
"After we started suspending their accounts, some folks affiliated with the organization used Twitter to declare that employees of Twitter and their management should be assassinated. Obviously that's a jarring thing for anyone to deal with," he told Aspen Institute president Walter Isaacson during the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit.
Costolo said that they shut down ISIS Twitter accounts because they are violating their 'terms of service.'
"It's against our terms of service. It's against the law in many of the countries in which we operate for them to use it to promote their organization. And when we do find those accounts, we shut them down. We shut them down quite actively," he said.
"Whenever you have a global public information-sharing channel, you are going to have people that use it for good. It's obviously been a tool for social change, beneficial social change in a number of countries around the world," he added.
While Twitter is preventing ISIS from spreading out its ideologies, mother of one of the captives is banking on the micro-blogging site to reach the terrorists and have her son back again.
Ed and Paula Kassig, parents of American ISIS hostage Abdul-Rahman Kassig , made an appeal on Twitter, pleading to the ISIS to release their son.
'I am trying to get in touch with the Islamic State about my son's fate. I am an old woman, and Abdul-Rahman is my only child," Paula said.
'My husband and I are on our own, with no help from the government. We would like to talk to you. How can we reach you?'
