Teen
Arrested After Tweeting Terror Threat to
American Airlines
How much are those Twitter followers really worth?
A 14-year-old girl from the Netherlands was
Arrested on Monday
After Tweeting a
Terror Threat to
American Airlines — and marveling at the Twitter followers that she attracted because of it.
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Man Jailed After Threatening President Obama on Twitter
"Hello my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big bye," she tweeted to @AmericanAir on Sunday, using a Twitter account mostly dedicated to the
American pop star Demi Lovato. The airline responded that it "takes these threats seriously" and would report her tweet and IP address — **t information the airline would actually have access to — to the FBI.
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