A Japanese Twitter user was recently been banned from using the social networking site for making a death threat against a mosquito, reports the BBC.
Tweeting abuse would sometimes get you banned from the platform but this time the action of Twitter caused a huge discussion.
It started on 20 August when user @nemuismywife, he was repeatedly bitten by a mosquito as he was watching TV.
After killing the mosquito, he tweeted: “Where do you get off biting me all over while I’m just trying to relax and watch TV? Die! (Actually you’re already dead).” He added a picture of a dead insect to his tweet.
Some time later he received a message from Twitter saying his account had been frozen and cannot be reactivated.
He set up a new Twitter account, @DaydreamMatcha, to criticize Twitter’s decision.He tweeted: “My previous account was permanently frozen after I said I killed a mosquito. Is this a violation?”
His angry tweet was retweeted more than 31,000 times and liked more than 27,000 Twitter users.
@Twitter Japan posted a series of twitter rules and wrote: While respecting freedom of expression, we prohibit aggressive acts including harassing, threatening or giving fear to make it impossible for others to speak, or express various opinions and beliefs with peace of mind.
Twitter has rolled out a number of new measures and automated tools to curb online abuse and harassment on its platform by looking and searching key offensive and aggressive words.
If you have mosquitos in the house, you need to pay attention to your fury and keep it away from Twitter.
