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Hyderabad: The Internet is raging over the government’s new advisory on Aadhaar. In a notification, issued on May 27, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued a new warning to people to not share the photocopy of their Aadhaar card with any organisations as it can be misused. “Do not share a photocopy […]
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New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday once again raised the presence of fake/spam accounts or ‘bots’ on Twitter, saying the micro-blogging platform has ‘very bot-friendly’ rules. Musk has put the $44 billion Twitter buyout on hold till its CEO Parag Agrawal tells him the exact percentage of bots on the platform. Twitter currently says […]
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San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter, which started testing Circle earlier this month with a limited group, has started rolling out the feature to more users. The feature, which allows users to choose up to 150 people, works a lot like Instagram’s Close Friends, as it allows users to send out tweets to a specific group […]
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Hyderabad: Samantha Ruth Prabhu, who was trolled by an unknown Twitter user, gracefully blunted the offensive remark aimed at her. Samantha has now responded forcefully to a social media troll who made an offensive remark about her. Under one of Samantha’s recent tweets, a netizen commented, “She’s (Sam) is going to end up dying alone […]
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Hyderabad: Following a news report about the IAS couple’s misuse of the Delhi government-run Thyagraj stadium, th Ministry of Home Affairs transferred both officers to Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, respectively, as ‘punishment’ for their actions. As the news came out, the social and traditional media space rejoiced at the ‘punishment’ meted out to them. However, […]
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San Francisco: A Twitter shareholder has sued Elon Musk, alleging that the Tesla CEO actively manipulated the company’s stock for personal gain. The lawsuit alleged that Musk proceeded to make statements, send tweets, and engage in conduct designed to create doubt about the deal and “drive Twitter’s stock down substantially in order to create leverage that […]
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Washington: Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission announced the settlement with Twitter on Wednesday. The regulators allege Twitter violated a […]
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Patna: After going viral on the internet, the video of a girl wearing school uniform walking one kilometer on one leg to reach her school in Jamui district of Bihar, got noticed by actor and philanthropist Sonu Sood. The girl’s leg had to be amputated after an unfortunate accident, reported a local media outlet, yet […]
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New Delhi: Elon Musk may not wish to launch Tesla in India owing to high customs duty but he is fond of replying regularly to Pranay Pathole, a Pune-based Indian working as a software developer for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), on Twitter. On Monday, Musk said that he is not running Pathole’s Twitter account. Pathole, […]
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New Delhi: Entangled in a bitter takeover battle with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Twitter is giving third-party app developers more access to its reverse chronological timeline, to enable them to retrieve the most recent Tweets and Retweets posted by the authenticated user and the accounts they follow. In an update, the micro-blogging platform said the […]
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Hyderabad: After the Audi car sporting a number plate with initials ‘KTR’ on it grabbed the attention of many at his arrival in London, a BMW car with initials of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao ‘KCR’ made the heads of many turn in awe on Thursday. Such was the attention that Deputy High Commissioner of […]
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San Francisco: Microblogging site Twitter has announced that it is introducing a crisis misinformation policy that will help hide tweets that share false information during a crisis. The company said that during periods of crisis access to credible, authoritative information and services is even more important. “We are introducing our crisis misinformation policy — a global […]
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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has put the $44 billion Twitter deal on hold, said on Thursday that he will now vote for Republicans, as conservatives return to the micro-blogging platform. Musk, who has gained nearly 11 million followers since he first announced Twitter takeover last month, said that the political attacks on […]
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San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that it’s rolling out Super Follows-only Spaces. Creators who offer Super Follows subscriptions can now host Spaces exclusively for their subscribers. The social media giant said this new option will give creators a way to “offer an extra layer of conversation to their biggest supporters,” reports TechCrunch. Subscribers […]
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San Francisco: Amid the ongoing Elon Musk-Parag Agrawal saga over fake user accounts, a senior Twitter executive, while slamming the ‘free speech’ call, mocked the Tesla CEO for having Asperger’s syndrome that makes him “special”. Conservative political journalist Benny Johnson on Wednesday posted a secretly recorded conversation by US-based far-right activist group Project Veritas on […]
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London: Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5 per cent of the accounts on the platform are fake or spam. Musk made the comment in a reply to another user on Twitter early Tuesday. He spent much of the […]
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New Delhi: The knives were finally out on Monday between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal as the Twitter CEO went into finer details on how the micro-blogging platform is fighting spam and fake accounts, to which Musk has objected and put the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal on hold. Musk even showed an […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday said that microblogging site Twitter’s algorithm might be manipulating users and also suggested a solution for that. Musk, in a series of tweets, mentioned that it is very important to fix the Twitter feed and shared how it can be done. “You are being manipulated by the […]
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San Francisco: Elon Musk on Sunday said that he received a call from Twitter’s legal team being run by Indian-origin Vijaya Gadde, accusing the Tesla CEO of violating a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by revealing that the sample size for checking fake/spam users on microthe -blogging platform was 100. Musk earlier said that his team was […]
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Washington: There’s no end to Twitter saga after billionaire Elon Musk’s dramatic entry to buy out the micro-blogging site, with rapper Snoop Dogg too throwing his hat in the ring after the news broke out that Tesla CEO’s deal is on hold. Rapper Snoop Dogg tweeted that he “may have to buy Twitter”. This set […]
