Twitter blocks ANI, NDTV official handles, know why
Twitter on Saturday blocked the official handles of news agency Asian News International (ANI) and NDTV.
ANI's editor Smita Prakash took to her personal account and shared the screenshot of a mail sent from Twitter informing that ANI's handle has been locked.
The official account of ANI has been locked for not meeting the minimum age criteria to operate the micro-blogging platform. Twitter handle of the news agency reads ‘This account doesn’t exist’.
“In order to create a Twitter account, you must be at least 13 years old. Twitter has determined that you don't meet these age requirements, so your account has been locked and will be removed from Twitter," the mail read.
“So those who follow @ANI bad news, @Twitter has locked out India’s largest news agency which has 7.6 million followers and sent this mail - under 13 years of age! Our gold tick was taken away, substituted with blue tick and now locked out," Smita Prakash tweeted.
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According to its website, South Asia's leading multimedia news agency has over 100 bureaus across India, South Asia, and throughout the world.
The Twitter account of the Indian news organisation NDTV appears to have been blocked as well. NDTV has yet to provide a statement on the cause for the social media company's decision.
Users have reported several glitches with Twitter since Elon Musk took over the social media company and slashed staff, raising questions about the service's survival with fewer engineers.
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- With inputs from agencies
