Category: twitter
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Social media celebrates the death of Elizabeth II
A series of posts on social media indicated that a good number of online users celebrated the death of Elizabeth II who died on 8 September. all jokes aside, solidarity with all those who have suffered under the colonial rule of the queen, and with their families and descendants as well. her death doesn't bring…
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Twitter censors Russian German Embassy over chemical weapon labs claim
Twitter has suspended the Russian Embassy in Germany’s account for one week, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Friday. The U.S. social media platform took action over the account for “violating Twitter’s policies regarding the dissemination of false or misleading information” after it tweeted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s claim that Russian forces…
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Elon Musk backs out of $44 billion Twitter purchase deal
Elon Musk is ending his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, alleging multiple breaches of the merger agreement. The announcement is the latest event of this deal which was first reported after Musk decided to buy Twitter in April. Musk said he had ended the deal because Twitter failed to provide sufficient data on the…
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Donald Trump reevaluating lawsuit after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
Former US President Donald Trump is reevaluating his lawsuit against Twitter following Elon Musk’s proposed $44 billion takeover of the online platform from where Trump remains banned. Lawyers for Trump say that they will discuss the issue with Musk once he has gained full control of Twitter. “When all of that happens, we expect to…
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Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal
Social media Twitter’s board has accepted an offer from American billionaire Elon Musk to acquire the social media company and take it private, the company announced Monday. The stock was halted due to the news but was up over 6% once it resumed trading. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital…
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Narendra Modi becomes most followed leader as Twitter bans Trump
Twitter has banned the account of US President Donald Trump citing “the risk of further incitement of violence” following the US Capitol Hill siege and the unrest that happened afterward. Trump had 88.7 million followers by the time he got banned on Twitter. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi currently has 64.7 million followers. By 2020, Modi…
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Twitter deletes Dr. Gopal’s tweet “white lives don’t matter”, academics defend her
Cambridge University has supported an academic who wrote on Twitter that “White Lives Don’t Matter” following a public backlash. The university said it “defends the right of its academics” to express themselves after calls for it to cut ties with Dr Priyamvada Gopal, an expert in postcolonial literature. On June 23, Prof Priyamvada Gopal, who…
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How to unfollow those who are not following you – Twitter
Many of my friends asked me how can we unfollow those people on our Twitter profile that are not following us back. One of the reasons that people want to do this is to get a decent ratio between followers and unfollowers. You can unfollow those people who are not following you back on Twitter…