Twitter India Trends On Twitter For Suspending Accounts

Twitter the 140 character platform known to stand by freedom of speech is once again under dark clouds for suspending accounts in India. While we are not sure what has motivated Twitter India to do so but it is already trending on its own platform for blocking a well known satire journalist Rahul Roushan.

Rahul, founder of Faking News which got acquired by Network 18 last year, was suspended from Twitter for hours.

The account has been now restored but not before losing 4K Twitter followers:

Looks like the account is restored. Have lost 4k followers. #FollowRahulRoushanToProtestAgainstTwitterIndia

— Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) November 1, 2014

Anyway, Artificial Intelligence project is working. Twitter India has been able to develop an algorithm that has “intelligent glitches”. — Rahul Roushan (@rahulroushan) November 1, 2014

Rahul isn’t the only one, another Twitter handle – @Stupidosaur has come forward and stated that even he was suspended:

What the heck. @Twitter had suspended my account. And the first checkbox didn’t even show what I accepted. http://ift.tt/1tqJCsg — StupidosaurOn (@Stupidosaur) October 31, 2014

Maybe in trying to clean up the mess, this time Twitter rolled out some new algorithms/criteria which were a little too severe.

— StupidosaurOn (@Stupidosaur) November 1, 2014

While there isn’t any official statement from Twitter India on the matter, users are sure Twitter is playing dictator

Hey Twitter India team are you taking up moral science classes or some good behaviour classes? That too based on your own faulty judgement.

— shilpi tewari (@shilpitewari) November 1, 2014

Twitter India run by Taliban? @rupasubramanya: Twitter also warned me if I don’t change my “behaviour” I may be permanently suspended

— Jiten Gajaria (@jitengajaria) November 1, 2014

This is BJP Govt & Twitter India under a Jehadi political head dares to suspend pro-BJP handles. Now imagine it were UPA-3.

— iMac_too (@iMac_too) November 1, 2014

Government dint celebrate Indira’s birthday, cong was miffed…so twitter India decided to cheer them up and how! #TwitterEmergancy

— Namrata Dixit (@dixitnamrata) November 1, 2014

Jerks taking over twitter India! @rupasubramanya: Twitter warned if I don’t change “behaviour” I may b permntly suspended. What’s going on?

— Voice of the people (@janlokpal) November 1, 2014

Insulting that FN editor’s account has been suspended, but none from URT. Dear Twitter India, can u pls suspend @ashwinskumar & @ajayendar?

— The UnReal Times (@TheUnRealTimes) November 1, 2014

However, Shiv Aroor, journalist at Headlines Today tweeted a while ago that no accounts were suspended and it was a technical bug:

Everyone calm down. Confirmed. No Twitter accounts suspended. I hear there’s a technical bug that’s being sorted out.

— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) November 1, 2014

Shiv might need to get his sources right at Twitter India, meanwhile users have questioned the selection of accounts by Twitter’s algorithm:

And this Twitter India bug only suspends RW accounts Selectively http://ift.tt/1DGK8U4

— Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) November 1, 2014

And this Twitter India bug only suspends RW accounts http://ift.tt/1DGK8U6

— Anurag saxena (@saaxenanurag) November 1, 2014

The story is developing and we will update this as as and when there is a word from Twitter India. We haven’t approached Twitter India as it hardly responds on such matters.

Twitter India Trends On Twitter For Suspending Accounts