American Airlines Tweet Had Teenage Girl Arrested For Terrorist Joke On Twitter, Now Teenagers Are Tweeting Bomb Jokes To The Airlines: How This Could Affect Twitter-Using Travelers

American Airlines tweet to a Dutch 14-year old girl was serious. The American Airlines tweet was made after a girl named Sarah made a terrorism threat joke to the airlines. Now, the girl has been reportedly arrested for her tweet.

According to reports, the girl named Sarah who provoked the American Airlines tweet lives in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She has been visited by police at her home after her terrorist 'joking' incident on Sunday where she posted a false tweet claiming to be a terrorist.

Business Insider reports that a spokesperson for the Dutch police said that though the police were not in a position to discuss charges, they however felt compelled to act because the American Airlines tweet incident resulted in a huge following online.

The girl who provoked the American Airlines tweet was using the name @QueenDemetriax_ on Twitter. The American Airlines tweet that sparked all of the online attention was: "Hello, my name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big, bye."

American Airlines tweet response to the threat was: 'Sarah, we take these threats very seriously. Your IP address and details will be forwarded to security and the FBI." This serious tweet by the airlines followed a series of panicked tweets from Sarah feeling sorry for her actions.

Tinet De Jong, a police spokeswoman, said that the girl  is now being questioned together with a relative at a police station in Rotterdam after her American Airlines tweet. Twitter reportedly disclosed the IP address from where she had written the message.

De Jong said in a statement regarding the American Airlines tweet, "We are asking her right now why she sent out these messages." She added that the police had already also asked the airline if it wanted to press charges. She said, "Much will depend on whether or not she's done anything like this before." She further said that only prosecutors are to decide whether the girl provoking the American Airlines tweet should face any charges.

Despite the gravity of the situation with Sarah's American Airlines tweet, it seems that it will not stop teenagers from doing unthinkable tweets to airlines. Sarah is not the only person making bomb threats to American Airlines, or even Southwest Airlines.

Below are some of the tweets by users of the social networking site under the guise of a "prank" or "joke."

American Airlines tweet like these, or tweet to any other airlines for that matter, threatening a bomb threat, presents all sorts of problems, not just for the airlines and the prankster, but for taxpayer's money as well. Airlines take threats seriously, no matter how ridiculous they may seem.

American Airlines tweet incident may have a traveler thinking that it could not affect travelling per se, but for Twitter-using travellers, this could mean a lot. These pranks on Twitter may just remove incentives airlines have to engage with their customers on Twitter, and many Twitter-using travelers know that this may be the only respectable sort of airline customer service left.