Twitter Policy

Twitter asks for more time from govt to comply with new IT rules due to the 'pandemic situation' in India

The notice from Twitter did not mention a specific date for the micro-blogging site to comply with the rules.

Twitter bans suspect Iran account for violating 'abusive behavior policy' as its post threatens Donald Trump

In the image posted by the suspect account, Trump is shown playing golf in the shadow of a giant drone, with the caption 'Revenge is certain' written in Farsi.

Twitter puts another warning on Trump's tweet that violates company's policy against abusive behaviour

Trump tweeted after anti-racism protesters declared a 'Black House Autonomous Zone' near the White House.

Twitter is testing a new feature that will let you know before posting if your tweet replies are offensive

Twitter said the experiment, the first of its kind for the company, will start on Tuesday and last at least a few weeks.

Twitter 'outage' briefly blocks Donald Trump's tweet naming alleged whistleblower who sparked his impeachment inquiry

A tweet from US President Donald Trump that identified an intelligence analyst as the alleged whistleblower who helped spark his impeachment was temporarily blocked at the weekend, with Twitter blaming an outage that affected a number of user accounts

Twitter says 'outage' blocked tweet of a whistleblower who helped spark Trump impeachment

Trump retweeted a post from a pro-Trump account that has shared photos of a person who it alleged was the whistleblower.

Twitter to update its global privacy policy so that users have more control over their personal information

These Twitter policy changes, which will take effect on 1 January 2020, will comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Twitter won’t delete user accounts till it figures out how to memorialise the accounts of the deceased

The 11 December deadline for deleting accounts will be extended till Twitter figures out a way to memorialise accounts.

Twitter intends to deactivate all accounts that have been inactive for at least six months

These inactive Twitter accounts will not be deleted right after 11 December and will be purged over many months.

Twitter being criticised for not taking action against phony 'fact-check' account

It shows that whatever steps tech companies have taken, users will continue to look for loopholes.