200 Threatening Tweets Every Day

The Netherlands receives 35,000 threatening Tweets every day. About 200 are so serious that police checks them very closely, according to a news report by Volkskrant. Martine Fish, deputy police chief of the Rotterdam police and responsible for social media, said that almost every day, a Twitterer is arrested or gets a warning about a threat made via social media. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"26320","attributes":{"class":"media-image size-medium wp-image-8630","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"300","height":"199","alt":"Twitter Android App"}}]] Twitter Android App / Flickr According to police, a threatening tweet is defined as a message involving threats of violence against a person. Sentences such as "I stab you", "I blow up the school” and “I'll kill you" are threatening tweet.