Tag: Micro Blogging Platform

San Francisco: Micro-blogging platform Twitter will now show live streams and broadcasts right on top of your timeline. “We’re making it easier to find and watch live broadcasts. Now, when accounts you follow go live, the stream will appear right at the top of your timeline,” the company tweeted. The new feature will include breaking […]

New Delhi: After reports surfaced that some of the top Indian politicians including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter accounts are infested with fake followers, the micro-blogging platform on Wednesday termed such reports as baseless. A recent “Twitter Audit” report claimed that Modi, Gandhi, BJP President Amit Shah and others lead […]

San Francisco: Twitter has taken down its account verification exercise, the process that gives important public figures on the micro-blogging platform a blue check mark next to their names. The announcement came after people criticised Twitter for verifying the account belonging to the organiser of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one […]

New Delhi: Twitter India on Monday appointed Manish Maheshwari, former CEO of Network18 Digital, as Managing Director for the country operations — nearly eight months after its Country Director Taranjeet Singh quit. Balaji Krish, who has been leading Twitter India’s team in the interim, will return to Twitter’s global headquarters in San Francisco to resume […]

New Delhi: Social media platform Twitter on Wednesday faced outage in India for about an hour. Several Twitter users complained about the platform not working at around 8 pm on Wednesday. Website Down Detector, which monitors service outage of various platform, recorded 2,764 complaint about the platform outage in India. Responding to an e-mail query, […]

San Francisco: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey won’t mind losing dollars from political ads on his platform. In a series of tweets, he said the micro-blogging platform will ban all political advertising worldwide and the reach of such messages “should be earned, not bought”. “We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. […]