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31 Oct

Parag Agarwal likely to get 42 million dollars from Twitter

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndia, InternationalBusiness, INDIA, international, Twitter

After much practice, the ownership finally has changed. An end to many speculations that have been going on for many days. Ending all previous speculations, Elon Musk is finally the owner of the Twitter software. And soon after the purchase, CEO Parag Agarwal was out of a job as expected. Parag was working as a software engineer at Twitter in 2011. In 2017, he became the company's 'Chief Technology Officer' or CTO. Then joined the post of CEO in 2021. According to the rules, if Parag is fired within 12 months of the change of ownership, he will have to…

26 Oct

Internal document reveals Twitter is losing its most active users

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, InternationalBusiness, Elon Mask, INDIA, international, Twitter

Twitter is steadily losing most of its active users to the microblogging platform, according to a Reuters report citing internal Twitter research. According to reports, most of its loyal users have been gradually leaving the platform since the start of the pandemic and have been using it less frequently from that time. According to Reuters, these people, who make up about 10% of the platform's monthly users and Twitter users who check in on Twitter at least six days per week and tweet three to four times per week, generate 90% of all tweets and half of Global revenue of…

11 Apr

Elon Musk will not join Twitter board, states CEO Parag Agrawal

editor0 CommentsBusinessElon Musk, Twitter

Last week, Twitter's CEO announced that billionaire Elon Musk will be a part of Twitter's board. Just a week after that incident, Parag Agarwal now says Musk is not in favor of being a part of Twitter's board but will still play an important role in shaping the company. "Elon is our largest shareholder and we will be open to his input," Agarwal said in his cutting-edge tweet. “Elon Musk has determined no longer to be a part of our board. Here’s what I can share about what happened. The Board and I had many discussions about Elon becoming a…

12 Jan

Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s Twitter account hacked, restored later

editor0 CommentsIndiaTwitter, Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

The Twitter account of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was hacked on Wednesday. The account, was restored a bit later. The hacker renamed the account as Elon Musk and tweeted a great job. The account was restored and posts by the hackers were all deleted. "The account @Mib_india has been restored. This is for the information of all the followers," the ministry tweeted. Last month Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account was hacked for a long period and a post claiming that India had officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender was tweeted from it. "The Twitter handle of…

14 Aug

Twitter Unlocks Rahul Gandhi Account. “Satyameva Jayate,” Says Congress

editor0 CommentsPoliticalRAHULGANDHI, Twitter

Twitter on Saturday unlocks the official handles of the Indian National Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi, day after the latter lashed out on Twitter for locking his and his party's official accounts and termed the micro-blogging site 'biased', 'which only listens to the government'. Shortly after the Twitter handle of Congress was unlocked, the grand old party tweeted 'Satyameva Jayate', to mark its comeback. Gandhi's account was temporarily suspended last week after he tweeted pictures of the family of a nine-year-old victim of alleged rape and murder in Northwest Delhi. Twitter deemed it a violation of its rules. In…

07 Jul

HC: Govt free to act against Twitter for IT rules violation

editor0 CommentsBusinessHigh court, Twitter

The government is “free to take any action” against Twitter Inc. for not complying with the new India IT rules, Delhi High Court said on Tuesday, ruling out any judicial protection to the US-based microblogging website. A bench of Justice Rekha Palli, however, gave Twitter time until Thursday to get back on the issue of compliance with the new social media intermediary guidelines. “From June 21 till July 6, you could have appointed a new person (a resident grievances officer). How long will your process take? Does Twitter think it will go on taking as much time as it wants…

04 Jul

Will Name Interim Resident Grievance Officer Soon: Twitter To High Court

editor0 CommentsBusiness, Tech ByteTwitter

US microblogging and social networking service Twitter has informed the Delhi High Court that it is in the final stages of appointing a resident grievance officer in India. In a reply submitted to the Delhi High Court, Twitter said that even before steps were taken to formalise the appointment of a grievance officer in India, the interim grievance officer had withdrawn his candidature on June 21. The company said it is in the final stages of appointing a replacement while in the meanwhile the grievances of Indian users are being addressed by the Grievance Officer. Twitter's response filed in a…

28 Jun

Twitter has once again shown a distorted map of India on its website

editor0 CommentsIndiaTwitter

Micro-blogging platform Twitter has once again shown a distorted map of India on its website. The map shows Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh detached from the country. The distorted map appears on the ‘Tweep Life’ section and shows Jammu & Kashmir as a separate county and Ladakh as a part of China. This is not the first time that when Twitter has shown the wrong map of India. Earlier in October 2020, Twitter had labelled the Indian territory of Leh in Ladakh as part of the People’s Republic of China. Twitter, which is already under pressure to comply with the…

18 Jun

Twitter Officials Appear Before Shashi Tharoor-Led Parliamentary Panel

editor0 CommentsBusiness, IndiaTwitter

Twitter representatives on Friday appeared before a parliamentary panel that had called the social media giant to discuss the issue of safeguarding citizens' rights and preventing misuse of online platforms. The parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, heard their views on the subject. Top officials of Twitter are being called at a time when the government has clashed with the American social media giant over a range of issues including its stand on the new IT rules. “We appreciate opportunity to share our views before Standing Committee on IT. Twitter stands prepared to work…

17 Jun

Police complaint filed against actor Swara Bhaskar over Ghaziabad assault video

editor0 CommentsNorth Eastcrime, Delhi, ghaziabad, INDIA, Swara bhaskar, Twitter

Delhi Police have lodged complaint against multiple personalities over the Ghaziabad assault video. The names include actor Swara Bhaskar, Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Asif Khan of Twitter India and Manish Maheshwari, who is the Twitter India head. The complaint was lodged by advocate Amit Acharya at Delhi's Tilak Marg police station. Delhi Police has meanwhile launched a probe but an FIR is yet to be lodged over the fresh complaint. Earlier, an FIR had named Twitter Inc, Twitter Communications India and news website The Wire, journalists Mohammed Zubair and Rana Ayyub, Congress leaders Shama Mohamed, Salman Nizami, Maskoor Usmani and writer…