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  Delhi Police constable loses job over social media post against Central Govt

  India | October 29, 2021 21:22 IST

  The matter came to the notice of the higher authorities and Delhi Police officials took action and dismissed the constable from his job.

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  Trump goes to court; asks Twitter to temporarily restore his account

  World | October 03, 2021 6:34 IST

  Trump was also suspended from Facebook and Google’s YouTube over similar concerns that he would provoke violence. 

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  Afghanistan: Twitter removes blue verification badge from accounts of some ministries

  World | September 27, 2021 7:13 IST

  Verification badges from the Twitter accounts of these some ministries and intuitions were removed at a time when similar badges are still in place on the accounts of former President Ashraf Ghani.

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  Twitter testing new privacy feature to remove followers without blocking them

  World | September 08, 2021 14:57 IST

  The 'soft block' feature is almost similar to that of Instagram's privacy feature with the name 'Close Friends'.

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  'Satyamev Jayate', tweets Congress after Twitter unlocks Rahul's account

  India | August 14, 2021 13:48 IST

  Rahul Gandhi on Friday released a video statement slamming Twitter for blocking his account and alleged that the social media platform was taking sides in the politics of the country.

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  Rahul Gandhi, Congress leaders accounts blocked for violating rules: Twitter

  India | August 12, 2021 14:15 IST

  Twitter handles of Rahul Gandhi and several Congress leaders have been locked by the US firm for posting pictures of the family of the nine-year-old Dalit rape and murder victim last week in the national capital.

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  Congress alleges Twitter handles of 5 senior leaders, including Randeep Surjewala, locked

  India | August 12, 2021 7:41 IST

  The Twitter accounts of AICC general secretary and former minister Ajay Maken, party's whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore, Assam in-charge and former Union minister Jitendra Singh and Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev have been locked.

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  AIMIM's official Twitter account hacked; now posts as Elon Musk

  India | July 18, 2021 17:31 IST

  The official Twitter account of All India Majils-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) was 'hacked' on Sunday, party sources said.

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  Twitter will be in trouble if it fails to comply with India rules: Delhi HC

  India | July 06, 2021 14:48 IST

  Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up the micro-blogging site for failing to appoint resident grievance officer (RGO).

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  Twitter restores blue verified tick for VP Venkaiah Naidu's personal handle

  Kurukshetra | June 05, 2021 21:10 IST

  Twitter on Saturday removed and later restored the verified blue tick on the personal account of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu. Officials of the Vice President Secretariat said the personal Twitter handle of Naidu @MVenkaiahNaidu was inactive for a long time and the Twitter algorithm removed the blue badge. They said Twitter was in the process of restoring the verification badge. The last tweet posted from the personal handle was on July 23 last year.

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  Twitter restores blue verified badge on VP Venkaiah Naidu's personal handle

  India | June 05, 2021 12:04 IST

  Twitter had earlier removed the blue badge from the personal Twitter handle of Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu.

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  Covid Toolkit case: Cong writes to Twitter seeking suspension accounts of JP Nadda, Smriti Irani

  India | May 21, 2021 6:40 IST

  Congress Thursday wrote to Twitter asking it to permanently suspend the accounts of BJP leaders including party chief JP Nadda and Union minister Smriti Irani for allegedly "spreading misinformation and unrest in the society".

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  PM Modi’s Twitter account for personal website hacked

  News | September 03, 2020 8:18 IST

  Twitter confirmed that PM Modi's account on the microblogging website for his personal website was hacked early Thursday. A series of tweets asked followers to donate to PM National Relief Fund through cryptocurrency.

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  333 Pakistani Twitter accounts suspended over posts on Kashmir

  World | September 05, 2019 12:50 IST

  The handles were suspended by Twitter following the objection by the Indian authorities in view of false and provocative content being disseminated through the accounts.

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  Rahul Gandhi thanks his 10 million Twitter followers

  India | July 10, 2019 13:03 IST

  Rahul Gandhi, who has stepped down as Congress President, has amassed 10 million followers on Twitter and the Congress leader is gearing up to celebrate the "milestone" on Wednesday in Amethi, the Lok Sabha seat he lost to BJP leader Smriti Irani by 55,000 votes.

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  Twitter to put notice on political leaders' harmful tweets

  Technology | June 28, 2019 10:19 IST

  Twitter will put out a notice for tweets from accounts belonging to political figures, verified users, and accounts with more than 100,000 followers if they violate its rules.

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  Hackers using DM route to hijack Twitter accounts

  Technology | June 12, 2019 11:46 IST

  Twitter accounts of megastar Amitabh Bachchan and singer Adnan Sami getting hacked, security researchers have warned that users should think twice before clicking on the links received in the Twitter Direct Message.

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  Twitter: 1.6 lakh terror-promoting accounts removed from the platform

  Technology | May 10, 2019 15:57 IST

  Twitter has suspended almost 166,513 accounts that were promoting terrorism and 456,989 unique accounts for violations related to child sexual exploitation.

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  Twitter expanding its premium live-streaming video lineup

  Technology | April 30, 2019 11:23 IST

  Twitter announces premium content deals with Univision, The Wall Street Journal, NFL, ESPN, and Viacom for live streaming videos on its platform.

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  Twitter suspends personal account of Pakistan govt spokesperson after complaints by Indian authorities

  World | February 20, 2019 20:34 IST

  Faisal's account was suspended as he was giving his followers updates about "Indian atrocities" in Jammu and Kashmir.