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Finance ministry Twitter followers cross 2 mn, Home ministry has 4.9 mn

The ministry started its twitter handle @FinMinIndia in July 2014

Twitter shuts down 170,000 accounts for spreading Chinese govt narratives

The company said that accounts were "spreading geopolitical narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China" and were removed for violating its platform manipulation policies

CrossFit founder Greg Glassman quits after backlash to George Floyd tweet

Reebok also dropped its affiliation with CrossFit this week.

Twitter Fleets: What is it, how it works and who all shall get it

Fleets is a quick way to express thoughts using multimedia or just simple text

Twitter launches test feature 'fleets' in India for tweets that disappear

Followers will be able to see a person's fleets at the top of their home page. People can see who's seen their fleet by looking underneath a post

The debate over Silicon Valley's embrace of content moderation

Many in tech cheered when Twitter added labels to President Trump's tweets. But civil libertarians caution that social media companies are moving into uncharted waters.

Amul Twitter account blocked briefly after it posted ad targeting China

Amul's Twitter handle could be accessed when checked on Saturday afternoon and the post containing the cartoon was also visible

Twitter disables Donald Trump campaign's George Floyd video tribute

The @TeamTrump account had tweeted a video collage of images and clips depicting peaceful protests

Twitter blocks Trump campaign's video tribute to Floyd over copyright issue

The company put a label on a video posted by the @TeamTrump account that said, This media has been disabled in response to a claim by the copyright owner

Facebook, Trump and Twitter controversy: The story so far

It is unclear how Trump could follow through on the threat of shutting down social media companies. President, himself is a heavy user of Twitter with more than 80 million followers

Pakistan temporarily blocks Twitter, Zoom to shun critical voices

NetBlocks data indicate that backend image and video servers, in particular, were unavailable during the disruption period, corroborating these reports

Snapchat won't promote Trump's account, says he incites 'racial violence'

Snap shares fell 2.4 per cent after the announcement

Twitter names former Google CFO Pichette as chair, Kordestani to stay on

Pichette, who had been Twitter's lead independent director since the end of 2018, will replace Omid Kordestani in leading the directors as chairman

Facebook employees' virtual walkout against company's stance on Trump posts

The backlash against big tech's ideological blind spot comes less than a week after Trump signed an executive order escalating his war with social media companies over how they monitor content

Trump calls Facebook's Zuckerberg after Twitter flags his tweets: Report

Trump last week signed an executive order in a bid to strip social media platforms of some of the legal protections that they enjoy

#RanbirKapoor trends on Twitter as 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' clocks 7 years

Kapoor does not have an official social media account. However, his character in the film, Bunny, has sent Twitterverse into a state of excitement

Trump's executive order may lead to stricter social media rules in India

Experts said the impact of face-off between Trump and Twitter' will not be felt in the US for now unless the Federal Communications Commission issues some regulations

Trump vs Twitter

The feud can have implications for freedom of speech

Trump-Twitter spat: Debate rages on role of social media companies

The US executive order gives regulators the power to take action against online platforms that are seen as censoring free speech

When looting starts, shooting starts: Trump walks back on Minneapolis post

When the looting starts, the shooting starts, Trump had written in a tweet that was quickly flagged by Twitter as violating rules against glorifying violence