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Twitter, Tweetdeck Outage Hit Users In Canada, Japan

San Francisco: Twitter and Tweetdeck have gone down for a large number of users mostly in Canada and Japan, though in India it is working fine. “We’ve been experiencing outages across Twitter and TweetDeck. You might have had trouble Tweeting, getting notifications, or viewing DMs. We’re currently working on a fix, and should be back […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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#AskSRK: Shah Rukh gives witty replies to fan queries

Mumbai: It was a fun-filled Tuesday morning for fans of Shah Rukh Khan as the superstar conducted an ‘Ask SRK’ session on Twitter, and seeing his replies, we must admit that his sense of humour has only become sharper with time. When a Twitter user asked SRK why doesn’t he burn the CD of his […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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Twitter admits privacy breach, users hit by targeted ads

San Francisco: In yet another privacy breach, Twitter has admitted that its users who provided email addresses or phone numbers for better security like two-factor authentication (2FA) on the platform were served with targeted ads. The personal data “may have inadvertently been used for advertising purposes, specifically in our Tailored Audiences and Partner Audiences advertising […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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Shahid Kapoor Epic Scene With Kiara Advani Revealed

Shahid Kapoor’s ‘Kabir Singh’ is undoubtedly a benchmark film in the actor’s career. The movie became one of the biggest Bollywood blockbusters of this year though it was the official Hindi remake of South film Arjun Reddy. Every scene in the movie revealed how the actor has poured his heart out. The movie garnered immense […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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UAE- Based Indian Expat's Visa Case Goes Viral Online

Dubai: A Dubai-based Indian expat’s plea regarding his passport taken away from him and being kept as a collateral against a bank loan has gone viral on Twitter. According to Jahir Sarkar’s tweets to the Dubai Police, he said that he had been brought to Dubai by an Egyptian and got his visa stamped for […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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Upcoming Twitter Policy To Fight Deepfake Videos

San Francisco: Twitter is working on a new policy to tackle deepfake videos on its platform that will address the content which could threaten someone’s physical safety or lead to offline harm. The micro-blogging platform has asked its users how best the synthetic and manipulated videos can be addressed. “Deepfakes” are video forgeries that make […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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Indian Idol 11: Sachin Tendulkar Is All Praises For Rockstar Chelsi From Odisha

Bhubaneswar: We all know how big a music enthusiast Sachin Tendulkar has been all through his career, when he used to play loud music in the dressing room for his teammates to enjoy. When Chelsi Behura of Cuttack wowed judges Anu Malik, Vishal Dadlani and Neha Kakkar with her rendition of ‘Main Pareshan’ from Ishaqzaade during […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads: Jack Dorsey

San Francisco: Twitter is to ban all political advertising worldwide, saying that the reach of such messages “should be earned, not bought”. “While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics,” company CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Social media rival Facebook […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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Indian Govt Asks Twitter For Information About 474 Accounts

New Delhi: The Indian government has asked Twitter to provide information about 474 accounts and requested to remove or withhold content about 504 accounts on violating the law of the land in the first six months of this year. According to Twitter’s latest transparency report, it helped the Indian government in 5 per cent of […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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Twitter Posts Can Reveal How Lonely You Are: Study

New York: Researchers have found that users who tweet on loneliness are much more likely to write about mental well-being issues and things like struggles with relationships, substance use and insomnia on Twitter. By applying linguistic analytic models to tweets, researchers were able to gain an insight into the topics and themes that could be […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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Twitter May Give Users More Control Over Retweets, Mentions

San Francisco: Twitter may give users the power to decide whether his or her tweets can be retweeted or not, a measure that could help restricting virality and prevent harassment. Similarly it may also allow the user to decide whether someone can mention the former in a tweet or not. These are some of the […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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Why Twitter's rival social network Mastodon trending in India

New Delhi: Mastodon, a little known micro-blogging platform first released in 2016, has suddenly sparked interest among disgruntled Twitter users. Some of these users who have accused Twitter of discriminating against the marginalised claimed that they have already created Mastodon accounts for saner conversations. “I have mentioned my #Mastodon account here. If you have a […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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Twitter Officially Bans All Political Ads On Its Platform

San Francisco: Putting pressure on Facebook to follow suit, Twitter has officially banned all kinds of political ads from its platform, weeks after CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the micro-blogging site would no longer allow those ads. No political content will be promoted from candidates, parties, governments or officials, public accounts committees (PACs) and certain […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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Wikipedia Co-Founder Launching Facebook, Twitter Rival

San Francisco: Intended to get right what Facebook and Twitter have so far been getting wrong, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is launching a social-media website named “WT: Social” which will compete with both the social media platforms. Instead of going for an ad-funded model, Wales aims to finance it through donations, just like Wikipedia. Like […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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Twitter Introducing Scheduling Tweets From Web

San Francisco: Twitter is now introducing the ability to schedule tweets from the web. This is currently available as a popular feature in the standalone Tweetdeck app and now the microblogging platform is looking to expand to the wider Twitter user base. The new feature could be handy to prep tweets for a coordinated product […]

  • Friday, 23 April 2021
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