If someone is trying to incite real violence, they're unlikely to do it on Twitter. Holding people to account for things they tweet is insane. Twitter isn't a

If someone is trying to incite real violence, they're unlikely to do it on Twitter. Holding people to account for things they tweet is insane. Twitter isn't a credible communications mechanism IMHO. It's for people to shout random things. You simply can't judge intent in 140 characters. If I tweet "I am going to bomb london bridge tomorrow", there's no way to know if I'm just having a bad day, making a joke, or am a terrorist for some reason tweeting my intentions. (The last is extremely unlikely). Even if I tweeted "All gays should be killed at birth", that doesn't in itself IMHO warrant any action. It could be some weird 'in' joke or meme. It could be that I'm gay and I wish I was dead because I'm having a hard day.... People get offended way too easily these days. Tweets are just words. They're not offensive because there's no connection or intent to harm. People need to chill out and start applying common sense to life. 99.9% aren't terrorists. 99.9% of people are pedophiles. The security theatre at airports doesn't make us any safer, prosecuting people for tweeting things doesn't make us any safer.