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Caste Census Could Lead to 'Majoritarianism', Shares Congress Leader Abhishek Singhvi, Deletes Post Later
Mr Singhvi warns that advocating for proportional rights based on population may lead to majoritarianism, emphasizing the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcomes.
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Father Gifts A Bottle Of Dirty Water To Daughter As Birthday Gift, But There's A Catch
Patricia Mou's father explained to her that a shaken bottle of dirty water symbolizes life when we are flustered.
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Threads App Sees Over 50 Million Users Sign Up Within a Day as Instagram's Competition With Twitter Heats Up
Threads now has 50 million users just over 24 hours since the app was rolled out on Thursday. Meta's "Twitter Killer" competitor works closely with its Instagram service, and its meteoric rise has caused rival Twitter to feel the heat and threaten to sue the Facebook parent firm a day after it was launched.
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Twitter May Launch New Features to Simplify Direct Messages, Retweets
Twitter is said to be working on two new features. One lets users mute their DM requests and the other makes retweeting simpler. These were first spotted by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong.
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Twitter To Lay Off Employees At Bengaluru Development Centre
Microblogging site Twitter has decided to discontinue engineering tasks in India, a move that will lead to lay offs at its development centre in Bengaluru. The company, however, did not disclose the number of people being handed pink slips.
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StopIslam Twitter-Trended for All the Right Reasons
An analysis of 1,333 global #StopIslam tweets scraped by The Washington Post between 9:20 a.m. and 12:50 p.m. Tuesday shows that roughly 90 percent were critical of the hashtag.
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Brussels Attack: Twitter Users Express Support With Iconic Fountain
The Manneken Pis was shown relieving himself on a Kalashnikov in images on Twitter using the colours of the Belgian flag with the hashtag #mannekenpis.
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Tweetwars: The Social Challenge In Twitter 'Capital', Indonesia
Indonesia has long been the Twitter capital of the world, but rival apps and rancorous political debate are driving users away, illustrating the challenges the microblogging service faces even in markets once considered strongholds.
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China's Microblog Site Weibo To Remove 140-Character Limit
The popular Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo will remove its 140-character limit starting January 28 amid reports that twitter, which is banned in the country, is also considering the same move.
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Twitter Experiments Reordering Tweets by Relevance
Twitter Inc confirmed on Tuesday it is testing a timeline format for its tweets, calling it an experiment.
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Beijing Smog Fails to Obscure 'Apocalypse' Humour
Several days of brown haze in Beijing so thick it has closed highways suspended construction and brought official warnings to stay indoors have also prompted jokes about the end of the world.
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China Says Don't 'Hype Up' Freedom of Navigation in South China Sea
The issue of freedom of navigation in the South China Sea should not be "hyped up" or used as an excuse for provocation, China's defence minister said today, in response to recent US action in the sea.
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China's Ruling Communist Party Says to Accelerate Military Reform: Report
China's ruling Communist Party will seek to build the capability to win an "informationized war" by 2020 as part of accelerated reform of the armed forces, state media reported today.
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Twitter To Allow Users to Create Polls
Twitter Inc said it is rolling out a service that would allow users to run polls on their profile, in a bid to improve user engagement on the microblogging service.
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US Navy Delegation Visits Chinese Carrier Amid Maritime
Senior US naval officers visited China's lone aircraft carrier this week, China's military said, as the two powers try to maintain military ties despite mounting tensions over Beijing's claims in disputed waters in the South China Sea.
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Caste Census Could Lead to 'Majoritarianism', Shares Congress Leader Abhishek Singhvi, Deletes Post Later
Mr Singhvi warns that advocating for proportional rights based on population may lead to majoritarianism, emphasizing the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcomes.
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Father Gifts A Bottle Of Dirty Water To Daughter As Birthday Gift, But There's A Catch
Patricia Mou's father explained to her that a shaken bottle of dirty water symbolizes life when we are flustered.
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Threads App Sees Over 50 Million Users Sign Up Within a Day as Instagram's Competition With Twitter Heats Up
Threads now has 50 million users just over 24 hours since the app was rolled out on Thursday. Meta's "Twitter Killer" competitor works closely with its Instagram service, and its meteoric rise has caused rival Twitter to feel the heat and threaten to sue the Facebook parent firm a day after it was launched.
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Twitter May Launch New Features to Simplify Direct Messages, Retweets
Twitter is said to be working on two new features. One lets users mute their DM requests and the other makes retweeting simpler. These were first spotted by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong.
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Twitter To Lay Off Employees At Bengaluru Development Centre
Microblogging site Twitter has decided to discontinue engineering tasks in India, a move that will lead to lay offs at its development centre in Bengaluru. The company, however, did not disclose the number of people being handed pink slips.
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StopIslam Twitter-Trended for All the Right Reasons
An analysis of 1,333 global #StopIslam tweets scraped by The Washington Post between 9:20 a.m. and 12:50 p.m. Tuesday shows that roughly 90 percent were critical of the hashtag.
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Brussels Attack: Twitter Users Express Support With Iconic Fountain
The Manneken Pis was shown relieving himself on a Kalashnikov in images on Twitter using the colours of the Belgian flag with the hashtag #mannekenpis.
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Tweetwars: The Social Challenge In Twitter 'Capital', Indonesia
Indonesia has long been the Twitter capital of the world, but rival apps and rancorous political debate are driving users away, illustrating the challenges the microblogging service faces even in markets once considered strongholds.
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China's Microblog Site Weibo To Remove 140-Character Limit
The popular Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo will remove its 140-character limit starting January 28 amid reports that twitter, which is banned in the country, is also considering the same move.
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Twitter Experiments Reordering Tweets by Relevance
Twitter Inc confirmed on Tuesday it is testing a timeline format for its tweets, calling it an experiment.
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Beijing Smog Fails to Obscure 'Apocalypse' Humour
Several days of brown haze in Beijing so thick it has closed highways suspended construction and brought official warnings to stay indoors have also prompted jokes about the end of the world.
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China Says Don't 'Hype Up' Freedom of Navigation in South China Sea
The issue of freedom of navigation in the South China Sea should not be "hyped up" or used as an excuse for provocation, China's defence minister said today, in response to recent US action in the sea.
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China's Ruling Communist Party Says to Accelerate Military Reform: Report
China's ruling Communist Party will seek to build the capability to win an "informationized war" by 2020 as part of accelerated reform of the armed forces, state media reported today.
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Twitter To Allow Users to Create Polls
Twitter Inc said it is rolling out a service that would allow users to run polls on their profile, in a bid to improve user engagement on the microblogging service.
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US Navy Delegation Visits Chinese Carrier Amid Maritime
Senior US naval officers visited China's lone aircraft carrier this week, China's military said, as the two powers try to maintain military ties despite mounting tensions over Beijing's claims in disputed waters in the South China Sea.
