Tag: Twitter
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Twitter asks users to help it curb deepfakes
The micro-blogging platform can also add a link -- for example, to a news article or Twitter Moment -- so that people can read more about why various sources believe the media is synthetic or manipulated.
November 11, 2019 -
Former Twitter staffers accused of spying for Saudi Arabia by digging into the accounts of dissidents
The two former Twitter staffers, Ali Alzabarah, a Saudi national and Ahmad Abouammo, a US citizen, used their access at the micro-blogging giant to gather sensitive and non-public information
November 7, 2019 -
Twitter faces casteism row as #cancelallBlueTicksinIndia campaign trends
The row started after the account of senior columnist Dilip C. Mandal got restricted. He later got back the account. But Mandal continued the tirade against Twitter.
November 6, 2019 -
Chetan Bhagat tweets he was ISRO’s chief guest, twitterati asks ‘why’
Bhagat to be the chief guest at ISRO didn’t go down well with the twitterati and they had a field day pointing out their dismay as to what qualified Bhagat to get such honour.
November 6, 2019 -
Tesla’s Musk returns on Twitter after 4 days
Last week Musk had announced that he was "going offline," adding that Reddit was still good.
November 5, 2019 -
Tesla chief goes offline from Twitter. Says ‘Reddit still seems good’
Going offline from Twitter would be a radical change for Musk as his tweets have often landed him in trouble.
November 2, 2019 -
Delhi HC agrees to hear Facebook’s plea on Ramdev video
A bench of justices S Muralidhar and Talwant Singh said that it will hear arguments at length on December 7 but refused to pass any interim order to stay single judge order.
October 31, 2019 -
Reach of such messages should be ‘earned, not bought:’ Twitter on banning political ads
Dorsey's announcement contrasts Facebook's recent attempts to justify its decisions to exempt posts by politicians from its third-party fact-checking program and to exempt ads by politicians and from a policy banning false or misleading statements in advertising.
October 31, 2019 -
‘Asking too much’: Komal Nahta on Ronnie Screwvala asking trade analysts to share correct box office figures
Akshaye Rathi, a film distributor, agreed with Ronnie's statements and said that the box office figures should not be shared in the public domain at all.
October 30, 2019 -
Complaint lodged against BJP’s Kapil Mishra for controversial tweet on Muslim community
Yesterday, Kapil Mishra took twitter to mock the Muslim community by posting a picture of an elderly Muslim man wearing a skull cap and several children with women along burqa waiting in a queue.
October 29, 2019 -
MS Dhoni fans bemused after ‘#DhoniRetires’ trends on Twitter
The hashtag on the microblogging website aims at Dhoni’s much talked about retirement plans, something the Indian wicketkeeper-batsman is yet to address in public.
October 29, 2019 -
PM, President greets nation on Diwali
The President greeted the nation in both Hindi and English through separate tweets.
October 27, 2019 -
Twitter records 3.2 million tweets for Assembly Elections 2019
Among the contesting parties in Maharashtra, the official handles of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance took the lead with a 38 per cent share of mentions, followed by the Congress-NCP alliance at 33 per cent.
October 25, 2019 -
Shah Rukh Khan answers fans questions through #AskSRK on Twitter
The 53-year-old answered questions about everything and anything. From Joaquin Phoenix's performance in Joker to sharing love messages for fans across borders to answering personal life questions, the session kept on getting better and better.
October 8, 2019 -
#Animallove: Disha Patani says ‘best therapy has fur and four legs’
Disha on Friday took to Twitter, where she shared a photograph of her pet dog.
October 4, 2019 -
Burj Khalifa pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary
On Wednesday, a video was posted from the official Twitter handle of Burj Khalifa, paying homage to man of non-violence.
October 3, 2019 -
‘No shame in apologising when one is wrong’: Actor Paresh Rawal over remarks on Dr Kafeel Khan
Rawal has apologised for his derogatory tweet, made two years ago.
October 3, 2019