Social Media giants Facebook and Twitter had three months to comply with India's new rules. They failed to meet the deadline. Can Facebook and Twitter get banned for non-compliance? Palki Sharma tells you more.

Gravitas: Social Media giants face heat in India

Virat Kohli posted a video of an ‘accidental crossbar challenge’ on Twitter showing off his football skills. The video garnered a lot of reaction from the netizens, including, Indian football captain Sunil Chhetri.

'Should I send a collective invoice?': Sunil Chhetri's hilarious response to Virat Kohli's viral video

Delhi police on Monday visited two offices of Twitter located in Delhi and Gurgaon to seek more information about Twitter’s rationale to label one of the tweets by ruling partly BJP spokesperson as 'manipulated media'.

Delhi police visited Twitter India offices over 'manipulated media' tag

Tensions remain high between the Government of India and Twitter after Delhi Police raided Twitter's offices in Delhi and Gurgaon to serve a notice based on a complaint about why a tweet by the spokesperson of the ruling BJP was tagged as 'manipulated media'.

Tensions high between Indian govt and Twitter

There is no space for hatred comments on the popular social media account, Twitter, and a Spanish politician has fallen prey to it for writing "a man can’t get pregnant".

Spanish politician's Twitter account suspended for saying 'men can't get pregnant'

Twitter users can once again apply to be verified after a years-long freeze on public submissions for the site's blue checkmarks, though the company said only "notable" users would be awarded the badge.

Here's how you can get Twitter's blue check mark after verification freeze

Twitter said Wednesday it was scrapping an automated image-cropping system after its review found bias in the algorithm controlling the function. The messaging platform said it found the algorithm delivered "unequal treatment based on demographic differences" with whites and males favored over Blacks and females, and "objectification" bias that focused on a woman's chest or legs, described as "male gaze.

Twitter drops image-cropping algorithm after finding racial bias

Russian authorities on Monday backed away from threats to block Twitter, saying that the social media platform deleted most of the banned content identified by Moscow and expressed readiness and interest in building a constructive dialogue.

Russia won't block Twitter, but partial slowdown to continue

Twitter is expected to roll out its paid subscription model widely dubbed as “Twitter Blue” in the coming months. The company has been working on the model for a year now and more details about the features will be made available with time.

Features of 'Twitter Blue', company's upcoming paid service revealed!

US President Joe Biden on Friday (local time) revoked an executive order by former President Donald Trump against social media platforms. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Joe Biden revokes Trump executive order against social media platforms

Properly understanding and responding to customer feedback on social media platforms is crucial for brands, and it may have just gotten a little easier thanks to new research by computer science researchers at the University of Central Florida who have developed a sarcasm detector.

Researchers develop artificial intelligence that can detect sarcasm in social media

Microblogging giant Twitter has donated USD 15 million to help address the COVID-19 crisis in India, which is battling the unprecedented second wave of the deadly pandemic.

Twitter donates USD 15 million for COVID-19 relief in India 

Twitter on Thursday announced that it has suspended several accounts that are trying to evade its ban on former president Donald Trump by promoting his content. Earlier this week, Trump launched a page, which he described as coming "straight from the desk of Donald J Trump.

Twitter suspends several accounts that tried promoting Donald Trump's content

Like almost everything in the world, the old-school method of ‘please leave your tips in the jar’ has now been converted to a virtual world. The social media platform, Twitter, is now allowing people to add virtual tip jars to accounts, through which other users can contribute money to their cause and/or provide tips for the offered services.

Twitter adds 'tip jar' for selected 'content creators'

As Facebook decided the fate of Donald Trump’s account, current US President, Joe Biden urged social media platforms to “stop amplifying untrustworthy content”. “The president’s view is that the major platforms have a responsibility related to the health and safety of all Americans to stop amplifying untrustworthy content, disinformation and misinformation, especially related to COVID-19, vaccinations and elections,” White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki told reporters.

Social media platforms should not amplify 'untrustworthy' content: Biden

After getting banned from the majority of the popular social media platforms, former US President Donald Trump has decided to launch his own space where he can freely criticise everyone he dislikes.

'From the Desk of...': Donald Trump launches his own social media space

Russia wants to fine technology giant Twitter an additional $321,586 (24 million roubles) for failing to remove certain content which remains banned in Russia, the TASS news agency reported on Wednesday.

Russia is seeking extra fines from Twitter for failure to delete 'banned content': Report

Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut’s Twitter handle was removed permantently by the platform on Tuesday for violating its rules on hateful posts. The move comes after a series of tweets by her on violence in West Bengal, which recently held elections.

Indian actress Kangana Ranaut’s Twitter handle removed permanently over hateful content

Twitter Inc said on Monday it will introduce a new feature to let users charge admission to their live audio chat rooms in its "Spaces" feature, as the social media company seeks to court more content creators.

Twitter to let users charge admission to their live audio chat rooms

Both houses of legislature in Florida passed a bill that would possibly stop tech companies from de-platforming politicians. As per the bill, tech platforms will allowed to suspend accounts of the politicians for 14 days, said BBC.

Florida approves bill stopping tech companies from de-platforming politicians

A few weeks after Russia slowed down the speed of the social media platform, it says Twitter is complying with demand to remove 'banned content'. On Friday, Russian state communications regulator Roskomnadzor said that while the US-based social media platform is now removing the banned content, it is still taking too long to do as instructed by the authorities.

'Slow, but getting there': Russia says Twitter is removing 'banned content'

Social media platform Twitter has pulled down at least 50 posts including tweets criticizing Indian government's handling of pandemic. Twitter has notified the impacted account holders of its action taken in response to legal request from Indian government.

Twitter taken down posts critical of Indian govt's COVID-19 handling

What started as a joke on the internet by one person turned into a mega duel championship in a US park to reclaim the title of one supreme...Josh. A 22-year-old boy named Josh Swain came up with the funny idea of making a social media group of hundreds of people named ‘Josh’ when the coronavirus pandemic began last year.

One true Josh! Hundreds of Josh gather to raise money for 4-year-old

The popular social media platform Twitter faced yet another outage and users across the world were unable to load tweets and many received the message saying “something went wrong”.

Twitter down! Users freak out after social media platform stops working

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