- Technology
Homegrown Twitter rival Koo lays off 40 employees in ‘realignment’ move
New Delhi: Homegrown Twitter rival Koo has laid off at least 40 people, mostly from its operations and backend teams, and the micro-blogging platform said on Thursday that it is realigning its…
- Middle East
Saudi woman sent to 45 yrs in prison for ‘tweeting her opinions’
Riyadh: A Saudi woman Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for using Twitter to express her opinions. Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani has been sentenced to 45…
- World
Trump’s Truth Social app fails to get Google nod to arrive on Play Store
San Francisco: Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump to counter Twitter, is yet to get approval from Google Play Store and the former US President’s company was working…
- Technology
Sharing articles on social media sans reading make us think we’re now experts
New York: Sharing articles on Facebook or Twitter, even when we haven’t read them, can lead us to believe we are experts on a particular topic and this can be a risky…
- Technology
Twitter planned to make money via monetising porn on its platform
New Delhi: Twitter reportedly planned to monetise adult content on its platform this year, by allowing adult creators to sell subscriptions on the micro-blogging platform, and become profitable in a jiffy. According…
- Entertainment
Delhi court issues fresh summon to ‘Kaali’ filmmaker Leena Manimekalai
New Delhi: A Delhi court has issued a fresh summon to filmmaker Leena Manimekalai in a suit filed against the depiction of Hindu goddess Kaali in the poster of her controversial film…
- Telangana
Telangana: KTR tests positive for COVID-19
Hyderabad: Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday informed that he tested positive for Covid-19 and said that he will be isolated at home until he tests negative. “Thought this was…
- Technology
This is how Twitter is shaping consumer behaviour in India
New Delhi: Twitter on Tuesday revealed, after analysing billions of tweets in India over a two-year period, how three key trends are behind an underlying shift in consumer behaviour in the country.…
- India
Subramanian Swamy sends legal notice to actors, makers of Akshay Kumar-starrer ‘Ram Setu’
New Delhi: Former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy initiated a legal notice against Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar, Jacqueline Fernandez, and others including the makers of the upcoming movie ‘Ram Setu’ on Sunday.…
- Telangana
Telangana to have 29 more medical colleges, Centre sanctioned zero: K T Rama Rao
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has expanded medical education in the state by sanctioning 16 new medical colleges even as proposals are afoot to set up 13 more, Minister for…
- World
Trump takes victory lap over heavily redacted affidavit
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump took an unpredictable victory lap over a heavily redacted affidavit that revealed the probable cause behind the search warrant served at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida…
- Bollywood
I am honored: Prakash Raj on being called male version of Swara Bhasker
Hyderabad: Pan-India actor and politician Prakash Raj is famous for unabashedly voicing opinions on every important matter on social media. Recently, he took to his Twitter to repost a tweet that questioned…
- Technology
Biggest regret is that Twitter has become a company: Jack Dorsey
San Francisco: Jack Dorsey’s biggest regret is that Twitter, which he co-founded, has become a company. In a tweet, Dorsey who is now running financial payments company Block, said: “The biggest issue…
- Technology
Shopping on Twitter can bring ‘individual or societal harm’ to users
New Delhi: Twitter shopping, which allows brands to list items for sale and tag products at the top of a merchant’s profile, has content moderation risks and can lead to ‘individual or…
- India
Twitter tells Tharoor-led parliamentary panel it follows strict data privacy
New Delhi: Twitter has told a parliamentary panel that follows it follows strict data safety standards and most of the employees do not have access to user data. Twitter officials were asked…
