Twitter shows Jammu in Pakistan, J&K in China

Social media platform Twitter on Thursday showed Jammu as part of Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) as being in China in its location-tagging service — drawing criticism from its own users.

Twitter also identified Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) as Azad Kashmir province of Pakistan.

Twitter's India office said the problem had been identified and would be resolved soon.

The government said the matter would be taken up with the site.

While posting a new tweet, Twitter gives an option to the user to tag his or her location.

The goof-up created a flutter among Twiterrati, a term used for frequent users of this platform, and a large number of the users criticised Twitter for the goof-up, with some terming it being biased against India.

Several ministries and departments of the government, including the President's secretariat and the Prime Minister's Office, have been using Twitter to communicate with the people. Prominent politicians, cine stars, and blue-chip companies of the country have also been using this platform.

Incidentally, Twitter was in spotlight in India after a controversy over former Congress minister Shashi Tharoor's "cattle class" tweets, which he had apparently used for economy class air travel.