Users Blocked On Twitter

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Friday morning - amid growing concern over the operational status of the digital payments app - has told users "your favourite app is working (and) will keep working beyond February 29 as usual".

US investment group Hindenburg Research has targeted former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The Hindenburg report said Mr Dorsey's mobile payments firm Block "widely overstated" its user base.

Microblogging platform Koo on Thursday announced the launch of new proactive content moderation features, geared to provide users with a safer social media experience. The new features developed in-house are capable of proactively detecting and blocking any form of nudity or child sexual abuse materials in less than 5 seconds, labelling misinformat...

A GitHub URL that is used to serve files and content from GitHub repositories to users all over the world has been blocked in India for users on some internet service providers (ISPs). Over the weekend, developers and users on Twitter reported that the URL was inaccessible. Heading to the blocked URL tells users that it has been blocked under the i...

The grievance appellate committees (GACs) will be able to review content moderation decisions by social media companies like Meta and Twitter, and can overrule decisions of the big tech firms on takedown or blocking requests.

Twitter reportedly built blacklists and actively limited visibility of accounts on the platform using specialised tools. The second instalment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" published on Thursday claims that the company's executives and employees accessed a "Visibility Filtering or VF" tool that was used to block searches of users and to limit the ...

Twitter is said to be planning to modify the price of its Twitter Blue subscription service, days after Elon Musk publicly criticised Apple's App Store 30 percent commission on apps and in-app purchases. The company is reportedly planning on charging web users $7 (roughly Rs. 580) per month, while users who pay through the iPhone app will have to p...

Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO and head of Block has shared new updates on the decentralised ‘Bluesky’ social networking initiative. The platform, under development, is testing features like account portability, algorithmic choice, and interoperation. This more developed phase has been named the ‘Authentic Transfer Protocol’ or the AT ...

Twitter has been spotted working on a feature to allow users to block mentions through controls that either block mentions from all users, or limit them to pre-approved followers only, according to details shared by security researcher and reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong. The feature may allow the social media platform to limit harassm...

WhatsApp on Thursday said it was working to keep users in the country connected via its messaging app, amid a widespread internet shutdown imposed after nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Iranian Mahsa Amini. The Meta-owned messaging service and Instagram were blocked in the country following public outrage with reports of security f...

VLC Media Player owned by VideoLAN, has been blocked in India. The company confirmed that the platform's official website was blocked on February 13 and there is no clarity on the reason for the block. No official announcement has been made by the government over the purported block on the open-source media player's website. As per posts on Twitte...

A Moscow court on Thursday said it had fined Alphabet's Google 15 million roubles ($260,000) for repeatedly failing to comply with a Russian law requiring technology companies to localise user data.

Jack Dorsey continues to rely on the potential of Bitcoin, despite the ongoing rough days for the crypto asset. He aims to integrate more Bitcoin-focussed services to his fintech platform ‘Block’ as he predicts BTC to become the native currency of the Internet in the coming days.

YouTube will not be blocked in Russia, the minister for digital development Maksut Shadaev said on Tuesday. He also acknowledged that such a move would likely see Russian users suffer and should therefore be avoided. However, Russia has blocked other foreign social media platforms.

Lobbying groups representing Facebook, Twitter, Google and other tech companies filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court, seeking to block a Texas law that prohibits large social media platforms from banning users based on their political views.

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Friday morning - amid growing concern over the operational status of the digital payments app - has told users "your favourite app is working (and) will keep working beyond February 29 as usual".

US investment group Hindenburg Research has targeted former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The Hindenburg report said Mr Dorsey's mobile payments firm Block "widely overstated" its user base.

Microblogging platform Koo on Thursday announced the launch of new proactive content moderation features, geared to provide users with a safer social media experience. The new features developed in-house are capable of proactively detecting and blocking any form of nudity or child sexual abuse materials in less than 5 seconds, labelling misinformat...

A GitHub URL that is used to serve files and content from GitHub repositories to users all over the world has been blocked in India for users on some internet service providers (ISPs). Over the weekend, developers and users on Twitter reported that the URL was inaccessible. Heading to the blocked URL tells users that it has been blocked under the i...

The grievance appellate committees (GACs) will be able to review content moderation decisions by social media companies like Meta and Twitter, and can overrule decisions of the big tech firms on takedown or blocking requests.

Twitter reportedly built blacklists and actively limited visibility of accounts on the platform using specialised tools. The second instalment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" published on Thursday claims that the company's executives and employees accessed a "Visibility Filtering or VF" tool that was used to block searches of users and to limit the ...

Twitter is said to be planning to modify the price of its Twitter Blue subscription service, days after Elon Musk publicly criticised Apple's App Store 30 percent commission on apps and in-app purchases. The company is reportedly planning on charging web users $7 (roughly Rs. 580) per month, while users who pay through the iPhone app will have to p...

Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO and head of Block has shared new updates on the decentralised ‘Bluesky’ social networking initiative. The platform, under development, is testing features like account portability, algorithmic choice, and interoperation. This more developed phase has been named the ‘Authentic Transfer Protocol’ or the AT ...

Twitter has been spotted working on a feature to allow users to block mentions through controls that either block mentions from all users, or limit them to pre-approved followers only, according to details shared by security researcher and reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong. The feature may allow the social media platform to limit harassm...

WhatsApp on Thursday said it was working to keep users in the country connected via its messaging app, amid a widespread internet shutdown imposed after nationwide protests over the death of 22-year-old Iranian Mahsa Amini. The Meta-owned messaging service and Instagram were blocked in the country following public outrage with reports of security f...

VLC Media Player owned by VideoLAN, has been blocked in India. The company confirmed that the platform's official website was blocked on February 13 and there is no clarity on the reason for the block. No official announcement has been made by the government over the purported block on the open-source media player's website. As per posts on Twitte...

A Moscow court on Thursday said it had fined Alphabet's Google 15 million roubles ($260,000) for repeatedly failing to comply with a Russian law requiring technology companies to localise user data.

Jack Dorsey continues to rely on the potential of Bitcoin, despite the ongoing rough days for the crypto asset. He aims to integrate more Bitcoin-focussed services to his fintech platform ‘Block’ as he predicts BTC to become the native currency of the Internet in the coming days.

YouTube will not be blocked in Russia, the minister for digital development Maksut Shadaev said on Tuesday. He also acknowledged that such a move would likely see Russian users suffer and should therefore be avoided. However, Russia has blocked other foreign social media platforms.

Lobbying groups representing Facebook, Twitter, Google and other tech companies filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court, seeking to block a Texas law that prohibits large social media platforms from banning users based on their political views.