- World
Trump launches his Twitter-alike app Truth Social on iOS
San Francisco: Banned from all top social media platforms including Twitter, former US President Donald Trump on Monday launched his own social media app called Truth Social on President’s Day that is…
- Technology
Ex-Twitter India head’s startup to create metaverse of education
New Delhi: Invact Metaversity, founded by former Twitter India head Manish Maheshwari, on Monday announced it has received $5 million in funding led by Antler India. Maheshwari said the startup will use…
- Middle East
Dubai man fined Dh100,000 for offensive tweets
Abu Dhabi: A man in Dubai has been fined 100,000 Dirham (Rs 20,30,508) for posting offensive tweets that defamed a company and its manager, local media reported on Friday. The manager filed…
- Technology
Twitter, Google blocked ads from medical journal about health, racism
San Francisco: Tech giants Twitter and Google blocked advertisements of a special issue of medical journal Health Affairs that focused on racism and health, the companies have claimed. The peer-reviewed journal’s latest…
- Technology
Twitter starts rolling out pinned direct messages to everyone
San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has started rolling out pinned direct messages to everyone on Android, iOS, and the web. Twitter is now rolling out a feature to pin up to six…
- Bollywood
‘Start wearing Burqa’: Swara Bhasker gets trolled over her Draupadi tweet amid hijab row
Mumbai: The ongoing Hijab controversy in the country has been gaining a lot of traction with people from different walks of life reacting to it. Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker is among the…
- Technology
Twitter rolls out labels to identify bot accounts
San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter is now rolling out its new bot labels that will let bot accounts to include a label to show they are automated. According to Engadget, everyone who…
- India
Alt News announces new initiative against Hate Speech
Alt News, renowned for fact-checking news online on Wednesday has announced a new initiative against growing Hate speech in the country. Pratik Sinha, the founder took to Twitter and informed that the…
- Entertainment
Truth behind Rakhi Sawant’s viral hijab video
Mumbai: Also known as ‘Queen of Controversies’ Rakhi Sawant is known for entertaining her fans and followers with her hilarious antics. Apart from her social media and onscreen presence, she makes sure…
- Technology
Twitter adds Paytm Payment Gateway for Tips in India
New Delhi: Micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday announced that it has partnered with Paytm Payments Services Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of digital payments and financial services platform Paytm, as a payments partner…
- Technology
Twitter back after facing hour-long outage
New Delhi: Twitter was back after facing an hour-long outage that affected both the web and mobile apps in some parts of the world. According to internet outage reporting platform Downdetector, the…
- Entertainment
Troll calls ‘bhikari Pakistani’ to Mahira Khan, see her befitting reply
Mumbai: Pakistani star Mahira Khan knows very well how to shut trolls like a boss. Her befitting reply to a trolls who called her ‘bhikari Pakistani’ proved that it is difficult to…
- Technology
Winning Twitter battles via pre-print studies harming evidence: Scientists
Washington: Preprint studies have mushroomed during the last two years of Covid-19 pandemic, but they may be harming evidence, scientists have argued. Preprints are a version of a scientific paper that has…
- Technology
Twitter posts robust results, user growth under Parag Agrawal
New Delhi: Twitter, under new CEO Parag Agrawal, posted robust quarter results on Thursday, as revenue reached $1.57 billion (with ad revenue of $1.41 billion) — both up 22 per cent (on-year)…
- Entertainment
Javed Akhtar condemns Hijab row, ‘Not in favour of burqa but…’
Mumbai: Veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar, on Thursday, condemned the ongoing Hijab row in India. Taking to Twitter, he wrote, “I have never been in favour of Hijab or Burqa. I still stand…
