The 21-year-old was arrested in Manchester on suspicion of harassment offences. It follows allegations of 'malicious communications' received by officers from London's Metropolitan Police on Thursday.
A man from Manchester was arrested today over vile threats sent to a feminist campaigner on Twitter.
The 21-year-old was arrested in Manchester on suspicion of harassment offences.
It follows allegations of 'malicious communications' received by officers from London's Metropolitan Police on Thursday.
Twitter is facing calls to take faster and stronger action against online abuse after Caroline Criado Perez was subjected to a sustained barrage of threats.
The tweets including threats to rape and kill her after she successfully campaigned for a woman's picture to be put on a new bank note.
A campaign in her support, calling on Twitter to introduce a button to allow speedy reporting of abuse, has already received more than 12,500 signatures and she has received support from MPs and celebrities.
There are also attempts being made to organise a boycott of the free social media platform on August 4.
In a statement, Scotland Yard said: ?A 21-year-old man has today been arrested in the Manchester area on suspicion of harassment offences.
?The arrest is in connection with an allegation of malicious communications received by officers in Camden on Thursday, 25 July.?
Ms Criado Perez said: ?It's sadly not unusual to get this kind of abuse but I've never seen it get as intense or aggressive as this.
?It's infuriating that the price you pay for standing up for women is 24 hours of rape threats. We are showing that by standing together we can make a real difference.
?We made the Bank of England change its mind, we can do the same with Twitter.?
Ms Criado Perez, a freelance journalist, organised a campaign which included a petition signed by more than 35,500 people after the Bank of England decided to replace Elizabeth Fry with Winston Churchill on new ?5 notes.
The move would have meant there were no women apart from the Queen on sterling banknotes.
Her campaign was a success, with an announcement by the Bank last week that the author Jane Austen will feature on the new ?10 when it is introduced in 2017.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has written to Tony Wang, the general manager of Twitter UK, criticising Twitter's response to the 'disgraceful, appalling and unacceptable' comments.
She wrote: ?Despite the scale and seriousness of these threats, the official response from Twitter continues to be extremely weak ? simply directing Caroline away from Twitter towards the police, and, belatedly, directing users to abuse reporting forms on Twitter.?
Mr Wang said that the company takes online abuse seriously.
He tweeted: ?We encourage users to report an account for violation of the Twitter rules by using one of our report forms.
?Also, we're testing ways to simplify reporting, e.g. within a Tweet by using the 'Report Tweet' button in our iPhone app and on mobile web.
?We will suspend accounts that, once reported to us, are found to be in breach of our rules.?
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