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While Twitter has put efforts towards an aggressive campaign to suspend Islamic State users the company in August blog post it had shut down 360,000 accounts for threatening or promoting what it defined as terrorist acts since the middle of 2015. Berger said in his report that "white nationalists and Nazis operate with relative impunity."

Berger said in an interview that Twitter and other companies such as Facebook Inc faced difficulties in imposing standards against white nationalist groups because they are less cohesive than Islamic State networks and present greater free speech complications.

White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathizers located mostly in the United States use Twitter with relative impunity and often have far more followers than militant Islamist's, a study being released on Thursday found.

Eighteen prominent white nationalist accounts examined in the study, including the American Nazi Party, have seen a sharp increase in Twitter followers to a total of more than 25,000, up from about 3,500 in 2012, according to the study by George Washington University’s Program.

The study's findings contrast with declining influence on Twitter Inc's service for Islamic State, also known as ISIS, amid crackdowns that have targeted the militant group, according to earlier research by report author J.M. Berger and the findings of other counter-extremism experts and government officials.

“White nationalists and Nazis outperformed ISIS in average friend and follower counts by a substantial margin," the report said. "Nazis had a median follower count almost eight times greater than ISIS supporters, and a mean count more than 22 times greater.”