Tweets
- Andhra Pradesh
RGV retorts to Naga Babu over tweets; critics allege YSRCP allegiance
Hyderabad: Controversial filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma has hit back at actor Naga Babu after the latter’s attack on his recent tweets. RGV said that Nagababu may be important for his elder brother…
- India
CJI Chandrachud recuses from hearing contempt plea against Kunal Kamra
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Thursday recused himself from hearing a batch of pleas seeking contempt action against stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra for his alleged scandalous tweets against the…
- Technology
Twitter’s ‘view counts for tweets’ feature starts showing up
San Francisco: As promised by Twitter Boss Elon Musk, the “view counts for tweets” feature would be coming for all tweets, just like the view count shown for all videos has now…
- Business
Jet airways CEO gets stuck in traffic jam, tweets
New Delhi: Stuck for more than 45 minutes in mid-night traffic, Jet Airways CEO Sanjiv Kapoor, while leaving from IGI terminal-3 towards Gurugram, blamed masses of trucks heading out of Delhi to…
- Technology
Elon Musk to remove device label from tweets
San Francisco: Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced that the social media platform will stop adding labels that identify the type of device used for tweeting. He shared the information from his…
- Middle East
Saudi Arabia sentences US citizen to 16 years over tweets
Riyadh: An American citizen has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, tortured and sentenced to 16 years in prison over tweets he sent while in the United States, his son said Tuesday. Saad…
- Telangana
KTR demands Nobel Prize in Medicine for PM Modi
Hyderabad: TRS working president and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Monday taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanded a Nobel prize to be awarded to him for “discovering”…
- Technology
Twitter to soon allow users ability to control who can tag them in tweets
New Delhi: Twitter is working on a new feature that will allow users to control who can mention them in their tweets, not letting anyone to tag or mention your Twitter handle…
- Technology
Twitter nudges users to share, copy link instead of taking screenshots
New Delhi: Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Friday started sending notifications to many users as they took screenshots of the tweets, nudging them to share the tweets instead. Spotted first by app researcher…
- India
Over 8.5 mn tweets targeted Rana Ayyub in 27 months
Hyderabad: Bullying Muslim journalists on social media has become a norm these days. An impression is being peddled that comments on social media have no significance while the fact is that these comments…
- Hate Crime
Journalist Mohammad Zubair held for sharing snap from a 1983 movie
Alt News editor and co-founder Mohammad Zubair was arrested on the night of June 27 by the Delhi police. According to the police, Zubair had posted a clip which is “objectionable and…
- Technology
Twitter likely tests ‘Liked by Author’ label for tweets
San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter is likely testing a new label “Liked by Author” that appears when the creator of a tweet likes your reply. A spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company…
- Technology
Musk tweets on death under ‘mysterious circumstances’, mother says not funny
New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday sent another cryptic tweet about his death under “mysterious circumstances”, a post which his mother Maye Musk did not like at all. “If I…
- Technology
Twitter’s edit feature may keep digital traces of earlier tweets
New Delhi: Twitter is working on the edit button, as requested by its users as well as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, but the micro-blogging platform is reportedly going to keep a digital…
- Technology
Twitter likely reverts change that turned embeds of deleted tweets into blank boxes
San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter reportedly confirmed that it has reversed a change that turned the appearance of deleted tweets embedded on websites outside of the platform. According to The Verge, instead…
