Elon Musk Announces Twitter To Increase Daily Reading Limit Soon For All Users A Day After Platform Puts Restriction
Earlier, Twitter put restriction of maximum number of posts a user can read per day on the platform in order to stop data scrapping and system manipulation. The new limit of reading posts per day will be 10 k for verified users, 1k for unverified ones and 500 for new unverfied ones.
Jul 02, 2023, 10:56 AM IST
Country cannot run according to Twitter: Ravi Shankar Prasad’s first reaction following FIR on microblogging platform
Prasad said that Indian companies, be it pharma or IT or others that go to do business in the US or in other countries overseas, voluntarily follow the local laws. "Then why are platforms like Twitter showing reluctance in following Indian laws designed to give voice to the victims of abuse and misuse," the minister questioned micro-blogging Twitter over non-compliance of IT laws.
Jun 16, 2021, 22:46 PM IST
Twitter seeks more time from government to comply with new IT rules
In its notice, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had said that Twitter's refusal to comply with the rules demonstrated the micro-blogging site's "lack of commitment and efforts towards providing a safe experience for the people of India on its platform".
Jun 07, 2021, 20:33 PM IST
Twitter strives to comply with applicable laws in India, says its spokesperson
Twitter Inc told Delhi High Court that it has complied with the new IT Rules and already appointed a Resident Grievance Officer under Rule 4 of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Ethics Code) Rules 2021 on May 28.
Jun 01, 2021, 18:12 PM IST
Twitter must comply with new IT rules for digital media, says Delhi HC
During the hearing, central government standing counsel Ripudaman Singh Bhardwaj told the court that Twitter has not complied with the rules. Acharya, in his plea, said that the new IT Rules took effect from February 25 and the Centre had given three months to every social media intermediary, including Twitter, to comply with them.
May 31, 2021, 16:59 PM IST
WhatsApp and Twitter’s war with government: What’s the future ahead?
Next comes WhatsApp which has been in news for quite some time now, thanks to its implementation of a controversial privacy policy. Now WhatsApp has sued the government over the new IT policies which say that these rules will eventually force the company to break its encryption, which will potentially reveal the identities of people that have sent messages through the platform.
May 28, 2021, 15:38 PM IST
Twitter working on new ‘Safety Mode’ feature: Here’s how it will help users auto-block, mute abusive accounts
Twitter has been embroiled in controversies due to the abuse on its platform and has released a number of features over the years to help reduce offensive content, such as letting people hide replies and letting users control who can reply to an individual tweet.
Feb 27, 2021, 10:15 AM IST
Twitter suspends nearly 500 accounts linked to farmers’ protest, says will continue to work with government
Twitter said that it took action on hundreds of accounts that violated the Twitter Rules, particularly inciting violence, abuse, wishes of harm, and threats that could trigger the risk of offline harm. “Prevented certain terms that violated our Rules from appearing in the Trends section. Suspended more than 500 accounts that were engaging in clear examples of platform manipulation and spam.’’
Feb 10, 2021, 10:40 AM IST
Twitter aims at handling abuse better
"The fundamentals of our policies and our approach have not changed, this updated version presents our rules with more details and examples," Twitter wrote in a blog post late on Friday.
Nov 04, 2017, 15:18 PM IST
Those violating our policies can face permanent suspension: Twitter on Abhijeet row
Micro-blogging site Twitter has issued a statement, justifying why it suspended singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya's account for his use of offensive language.
May 31, 2017, 15:53 PM IST
Twitter suspends 125,000 terrorism-related accounts
Twitter said on Friday it has suspended 125,000 accounts primarily related to the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) since the middle of 2015.
Feb 06, 2016, 09:17 AM IST
