The Twitter account of Somali militant group al-Shabab has been suspended, after it was used to threaten to kill Kenyan hostages.
Al-Shabab launched its Twitter account in December 2011, after Kenyan troops went into Somalia to combat it.
Earlier this month, it used Twitter to announce it would kill a French hostage and then said it had done so.
Twitter refused to comment on the suspension but its rules say that threats of violence are banned.
Somalia’s al-Shabab Twitter account suspended ~ BBC
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