18-year-old girl arrested for Twitter threat

An 18-year-old girl has become the latest teenager to be arrested for making violent threats using the microblogging service Twitter.


The girl had threatened to stab everybody working at her local job centre if she did not get social security benefits. The centre reported the threats to the police.
There has been a string of similar incidents in recent weeks, mostly involving schools.

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