First of all, principle and principal are two different words that mean different things.
Second of all, we don't have all the details in this case. We don't know if the comments were another incident in a long line of harassing behavior. We don't know if the teacher and the students had a discussion or multiple discussions that didn't lead anywhere and the teacher felt the need to get administration involved. Whether the teachers safety was actually threatened or not is not as big of a deal as whether they felt like it was threatened; and I don't just mean physical safety but also their emotional state.
Finally, it is well within the rights of the Principal to suspend a student for sexually suggestive comments made about one of his/her teachers on a social media website. As a teacher, I have to be very careful about what I put on my Twitter page and how I am represented online. If some student thinks I'm a big jerk and continuously tweets insults about me, I would absolutely expect my administration to step in and discipline that student if I were unable to do it myself. The reality of social media is that it's widespread and accessible to everybody, you can't expect something controversial or insulting that you post on Twitter to not impact other related aspects of your life.
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The principle should focus on providing an education environment and stop with their "god" complex.
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That's exactly what the Principal in this case is doing. The teacher and administration feel that the sexually suggestive comments posted have had a destructive effect on the learning environment. Right in the article, it says they were "deeply inappropriate" and have "negatively impacted the school community".