In an article in BBC News on January 25, 2013, Twitter has suspended Al-Shabaab account. The account which was opened in December 2011, tweeted that it would kill a French hostage and then said it was done. On Wednesday, the Al-shabaab account posted a video link of two Kenyan civil servants telling the Kenyan goverment their lives were in danger unless it released all Muslims held on "so called terrorism charges" in their country.
Twitter would not respond on suspension but its rules state threats of violence are banned.
The story was also carried in All Africa ,who also reported that Al-Shabaab used its Arabiac account to denounce the suspension as censorship. " This is new evidence of the freedom of expression in the West." it said.
Yahoo posted Al-Shabaab's response to the suspension. Al-Shabaab media officer stated "They shut it down because our account overpowered all the Christians' mass media and they could not tolerate the grief and the failure of the Christians we always displayed (online)." They also stated the "Kenyan goverment has three weeks to responds to its demands if their prisoners were to be kept alive."
Al-Shabaab said they will continue to display information no matter what means they use.