Tag: Twitter
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Why our official Twitter account was suspended – NCC
The Twitter account of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), @NgComCommission has been restored. This followed a temporary suspension by Twitter, a decision taken to ensure the safety of the account owner, NCC and its thousands of followers. Twitter’s security features had interpreted the multiple Online staff Internet Protocol (IP) logins as a suspected attempt to…
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Twitter suspends NCC account
Twitter has suspended the account of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on the microblogging platform. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports @NgComCommission is the official Twitter account of the independent national regulatory authority for the telecommunications industry in Nigeria. The Commission is responsible for creating an enabling environment for competition among operators in the industry as well as…
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Twitter accounts of founders of BioNTech vaccine coy fake
Twitter accounts purported to be those of Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, the founders of the German firm BioNTech, which raised hopes of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus last week are fake, BioNTech said on Monday. It made the announcement through its own Twitter account. The company said it had asked Twitter to delete…
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U.S. ELECTIONS: Twitter labels 300,000 misleading tweets
Social media giant, Twitter, says it labelled approximately 300,000 tweets for disputed and “potentially misleading” contents about the U.S. elections over the last two weeks. Twitter’s Head of Legal, Policy and Trust, Vijaya Gadde, and its Head of Product, Kayvon Beykpour, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday evening. According to Gadde and Beykpour, the…
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Turkey fines Facebook, Twitter, TikTok for defying social media law
Turkey has imposed hefty fines on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and other platforms, for violating a new law that exerts greater control over social media. The announcement was made, ironically on Twitter, by Deputy Transport and Infrastructure Minister Omer Sayan on Wednesday. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and TikTok, were each fined 10 million lira (1.17…
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Twitter flags Trump for misinformation over electoral fraud allegation
Micro-blogging site, Twitter, has flagged US President Donald Trump’s claim of electoral fraud in the ongoing American presidential election. Votes are still being counted across the country but President Trump took to Twitter to claim “they are trying to STEAL the Election.” The first version of his tweet was taken down because he misspelled polls…
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U.S. election: Twitter, Facebook outline action to take if candidate declares premature victory
Social media companies Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc on Monday outlined plans for placing warning labels on posts from U.S. election candidates and campaigns that claim victory in advance of official results. The moves come as social network platforms brace for what has been an unusual election cycle due to a high number of…
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BREAKING: FG petitioned to shut down Twitter in Nigeria [VIDEO]
Adamu Garba, a former presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC) has petitioned the Federal Government of Nigeria to shut down Twitter, stopping the microblogging platform from operating in any part of the country. The former APC presidential aspirant, who joined the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in the petition, also asked a Federal High…
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Twitter CEO lends support for #EndSARS
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter, Jack Dorsey has thrown his weight behind the demand to end police brutality in Nigeria. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Jack Dorsey tweeted the hashtag of the protest at 9:40pm Nigerian time on Wednesday, officially joining in the #EndSARS campaign that is going on across the country. The philanthropist…
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From #EndSARS to #UnfollowBuhari: Buhari loses 100,000 followers on Twitter
President Buhari has lost 100,000 followers on Twitter and he may lose more as some Nigerians intensified pressure on him to disband the obnoxious Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad(FSARS). Nigerian youths have been on the streets since Thursday clamouring for its scrapping nationwide. But government has only promised reforming the hated police outfit, notorious for extra-judicial…