After 4 yrs, Alibaba package reaches Delhi techie. Twitter is stumped!Agarwal ordered the product from the now-banned Chinese online retail service Ali Express in 2019.
22 Jun, 2023, 05.07 PM IST
The transformation of Twitter from public square to exclusive club raises questions for IndiaWith the new policy of the opt-in and paid subscription for 'Twitter Blue' that seeks to fundamentally recast both verification and content...
23 Dec, 2022, 11.32 PM IST
Will Elon Musk reinstate Kangana Ranaut's Twitter account?Since the day he took over Twitter, Elon Musk has been restoring some banned accounts and making free expression a right for all Twitter us...
22 Nov, 2022, 09.41 AM IST
Amid Elon Musk takeover, Twitter bans 54K accounts in India for policy violationsTwitter banned 52,141 accounts in India for promoting child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and allied content between August 26...
01 Nov, 2022, 01.44 PM IST
After Elon Musk takeover, India says it expects Twitter to comply with local rulesOver the past two years, Indian authorities have asked the company to act on content such as accounts supportive of an independent Sikh sta...
28 Oct, 2022, 11.58 AM IST
Twitter bans 45,191 accounts in India for violating guidelinesThe microblogging platform finds itself in a legal battle in the Karnataka High Court with the Indian government over content blocking orde...
02 Sep, 2022, 05.17 PM IST
Twitter bans 43,140 accounts in India for violating normsTwitter said it purged 40,982 accounts for child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and similar content and banned 2,158 accounts f...
02 Aug, 2022, 11.04 AM IST
Twitter bans over 46,000 bad accounts in India in MayAccording to the report, Twitter removed 43,656 accounts for child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and similar content, while 2...
03 Jul, 2022, 04.20 PM IST
After Jack Dorsey, MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar backs Musk's plan to reinstate Trump"Deplatforming is a big deal - It's a violation of fundamental rights of users and must have force of law behind it for any platform to exe...
12 May, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Twitter India deposes before Shashi Tharoor-led parliamentary panelThe development comes at a time when Twitter may have lost its social media intermediary status for not complying with India's revised IT r...
18 Jun, 2021, 09.09 PM IST
Twitter blocks JazzyB, three others after Indian govt's legal requestThe company confirmed that it received a legal request from the government to block the handles
08 Jun, 2021, 08.25 PM IST
'Ban' fears echo on social media as Big Tech clashes with governmentFacebook, WhatsApp and Twitter are flooded with hashtags and posts calling for a ban on them in India or defending them.
26 May, 2021, 09.10 PM IST
TikTok India social handles active but losing followersThe higher activity levels come at a time when there have been media reports that Oracle Corp has ousted Microsoft to emerge as the preferr...
25 May, 2021, 02.10 PM IST
Differences in law, culture explain Twitter's US 'bias', experts sayIn India, the govt uses Section 66A of the IT Act to crack down on anything it deems harmful to ‘public order’, while US law has a much hig...
04 Feb, 2021, 11.28 AM IST
Indian Twitter erupts over a controversial account's suspensionSeveral right-wing accounts took to Twitter calling for a ban of the social media platform in India unless it reinstated the True Indology ...
20 Nov, 2020, 01.43 PM IST
Government non-committal on action against Islamist preacher Zakir NaikRohan Imtiaz, son of an Awami League leader, ran a propaganda on Facebook last year quoting controversial Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Nai...
05 Jul, 2016, 08.10 PM IST
Anonymous joins protests against Internet shutdown in KashmirHacktivist group Anonymous joined thousands of others to protest the shutdown of internet services in Kashmir for the fourth consecutive da...
12 Feb, 2013, 08.54 PM IST