Tag: tweet
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Government offering cheap Indian Oil, HP petrol pump dealerships online? Truth behind viral tweet
[ad_1] A viral tweet claims that a government website is offering cheap dealerships for petrol pumps across the country, run by Indian Oil and Hindustan Petroleum. A website which is claiming to offer cheap petrol pump PSU dealership is now making waves on social media, with many netizens impressed with the rates as well as…
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Sharmila’s tweet thanking Rahul Gandhi indicates she is moving ‘closer’ to Congress
[ad_1] The speculation about her entry started when she met Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shiv Kumar after the Karnataka results were announced. She met him again immediately after he took over as the Deputy Chief Minister to congratulate him. File | Photo Credit: ANI Amid the ongoing political speculation over YSR Congress Telangana Party…
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Azerbaijan-EU envoy’s death-threat tweet still online
[ad_1] Azerbaijan’s EU ambassador is standing by his death-threat tweet against MEPs, even though Brussels says he crossed the line. The ambassador, Vaqif Sadıqov, declined to reply when asked by EUobserver this week if he regretted it in hindsight. The “guys” was addressed to French MEP Nathalie Loiseau’s delegation to Armenia But his offensive post…
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Conservative Party Mocked For Tweet Claiming Labour Has A Problem With Chaos
[ad_1] Those in glass houses should not throw stones, the saying goes. On Wednesday the Conservative press office tweeted a “0 days since last incident” graphic in response to Labour’s housing policy. “Labour flip flopped on housing no less than a few hours ago,” the Tory press account said. “How Sir flip flop can preach…
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Alex Greenwich sues Mark Latham over ‘homophobic’ tweet
[ad_1] Key PointsSydney MP Alex Greenwich is suing Mark Latham for aggravated damages.Mr Latham had posted a homophobic tweet in March focusing on Mr Greenwich.Mr Latham had deleted the tweet not lengthy after however refused to apologise. Impartial MP Alex Greenwich is suing Mark Latham for aggravated damages, claiming the NSW One Nation chief accusing…
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Twitter increases paid users’ tweet limit to 10,000 characters
[ad_1] For Twitter Blue customers within the US, the web site’s 280-character restrict has been a factor of the previous since February when it gave them the power to submit 4,000-character tweets. Now, the corporate has greater than doubled that restrict and has launched assist for tweets as much as 10,000 characters in size. As…
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Like, Tweet, & Torment: Activists Push Back
[ad_1] By Kristen Anna, Claudia Bennett, Felicity Salina, Hannah Van Dijcke After news broke that a young Egyptian, Khaled Saeed, had been tortured and killed by police in June 2010, Wael Ghonim created the Facebook page, “We are all Khaled Saeed.” The Facebook page quickly became the most followed page in the Arab World, with…
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Like, Tweet, & Torment: Exposing Atrocities on Social Media
[ad_1] By Claudia Bennett Using photos and videos in criminal trials isn’t a recent phenomenon. The Nuremberg trials were the first, using images of Nazi concentration camps to bring perpetrators to justice. Today, social media has changed the game entirely. Activists, journalists, opposition leaders, and the public can take a photo or video and instantly…
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Like, Tweet, & Torment: Repression by Proxy
[ad_1] By Felicity Salina Authoritarian regimes have been increasingly creative in developing ways to control the digital space and the flow of information. Aside from jailing people for their tweets, monitoring accounts that uncover a regime’s misdeeds, and siccing cyber trolls on dissidents, they have also discovered the convenience of using intermediaries to censor. The…