Twitter blocks neo-Nazis in a world first

Twitter has blocked an account in a country for the first time, after German police asked the micro-blogging site to restrict access by a neo-Nazi group.

"We announced the ability to withhold content back in Jan (January)," Twitter's chief lawyer Alex Macgillivray said in a message posted on the website.

"We're using it now for the first time re: a group deemed illegal in Germany."

In a separate tweet, Mr Macgillivray posted a link to a message from the police in the northern German state of Lower Saxony asking Twitter to block the account of Besseres Hannover, a far-right outfit which was outlawed last month.

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