New Delhi: Will Twitter leave India? The discussion gainedmomentum after a face-off between Twitter and the Government on Saturday.
Speculations started pouring in on Saturday when Twittertampered with the accounts of Vice President M Venkaiahanadu and RSS Chief MohanBhagwat.
After this manipulation by Twitter, the government swunginto action and got involved in the exercise of sending the final notice toTwitter. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology wrote toTwitter that it is disappointed with your the company’s reply received on 28May and 2 June.
Because neither the situation was clarified nor the newrules fully implemented regarding what was asked by the government.
The government told Twitter that it is giving the lastchance to Twitter. Otherwise, the concession that is being given will beabolished and the company will be responsible for the consequences.
Twitter was launched in India on July 6, 2006. Twitter is anAmerican microblogging and social networking service on which users post andinteract with messages known as "tweets".
Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and hasmore than 25 offices around the world. Tweets were originally restricted to 140characters, but the limit was doubled to 280 for non-CJK languages in November2017. Audio and video tweets remain limited to 140 seconds for most accounts.
Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone,and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. By 2012,more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the servicehandled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.
In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and hasbeen described as "the SMS of the Internet".
As of Q1 2019, Twitter had more than 330 million monthlyactive users. Twitter is a some-to-many microblogging service, given that thevast majority of tweets are written by a small minority of users.
Most governments remain unhappy with the posts beingreleased on Twitter. Even during the previous Dr. Manmohan Singh government, anattempt was made to rein in Twitter. But after the uproar, the governmentbacked down.
To rein in Twitter, the government had recently enacted newIT laws. But Twitter rejected them. The government is of the opinion that becauseof unbridled tweets, anything can happen in the country. Because many terroristorganizations, gangsters and anti-national elements use this site fearlessly.
Due to which any dispute can happen anywhere. Twitter is notready to accept this. In such a situation, there will be a tussle between thegovernment and Twitter. If the government resorts to the new law, then Twitterwill talk about freedom of expression. Due to which the dispute will increasefurther.
In such a situation, Twitter may think of leaving India.Because despite millions of efforts, Twitter cannot escape the eyes of thegovernment.
Then the government will have the option to ban Twitter. Asdid Nigeria. In such a situation, Twitter's business will suffer tremendously,which Twitter cannot approve of. Meanwhile, Nigeria has banned Twitter. Thereason for this action is deleting the tweet of the Nigerian President. Twitterbelieved that the Nigerian President made a provocative tweet. Because of whichhis post was deleted. Angered by Twitter's action, Nigeria completely bannedthis microblogging site.
PM Narendra Modi has 68.7 million followers on Twitter.Small and big leaders of all political parties of India tweet. If Twitter isseparated from India then who will replace this social site? Will beinteresting to see.