However, it was business as usual on social media, with #Budget2013, #Chidambaram and #NirbhayaFund trending through the day and users taking potshots at the government. We've compiled a list of hilariously sarcastic tweets. Feel free to add in the comments section. ...
02:56 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The DSC Jaipur Literature Festival 2013 is possibly the most high profile gathering of litterateurs in Asia. ...
03:37 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Tweaking its embedded tweet feature, Twitter has redesigned the embedded tweet boxes, thereby them more engaging and easier to read. ...
12:34 PM, Jan 23, 2013
The Congress's two-day Chintan Shivir in Jaipur was flagged off by party President Sonia Gandhi on Friday. The top brass of the party will focus on the Lok Sabha elections that are due in 2014. The Shivir will also discuss political challenges being faced by the Congress. CNN-IBN's Pallavi Ghosh is at the venue of the Chintan Shivir, tweeting the action live. ...
02:34 PM, Jan 18, 2013
"Those magical moments of our ODI journey will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you so much," Sachin, who announced his ODI retirement on Sunday, tweeted. ...
11:35 AM, Dec 25, 2012
New Delhi: Twitter's 200 million active users can soon savor or cringe over every single statement they've tweeted when the social media company begins sending users their entire archive of 140-character messages. Only English-language users have this service for now, but Twitter will eventually send a download link containing the full personal archives in one file to any user who asks, the company said on Wednesday. "Today, we're introducing the...
10:54 AM, Dec 20, 2012
London: The beleaguered BBC is asking its staff to tone down the tweets. Britain's national broadcaster is in crisis over its bungled reporting of a child sex-abuse scandal. Its top executive has resigned, two more have temporarily stepped down and others are facing disciplinary proceedings. Unsurprisingly, some of the BBC's 20,000 staff, including well-known personalities, have taken to social media to discuss its woes. The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on...
07:40 AM, Nov 14, 2012
Washington: On US Election Day, conversations around the polls totalled 32 million tweets with 23 million tweets sent after the first poll closed, the micro-blogging site said today. And within minutes of clinching victory, @BarackObama's "Four more years" tweet quickly became his most retweeted tweet ever, Twitter said. Conversation peaked at 327,452 Tweets Per Minute when the broadcast networks in the US called the US President, Barack Obama, winning reelection...
03:42 PM, Nov 07, 2012
New Delhi: With the view to be more transparent with the content posted by users, Twitter has introduced a new copyright policy that has made a change in the way Twitter responds to copyright complaints. Twitter will now withheld any copyright-infringing tweet with a takedown notice explaining it's being withheld due to a complaint, instead of deleting it. In the past, Twitter used to delete copyright-infringing tweets and the URL...
04:53 PM, Nov 05, 2012
New York: Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds of thousands moved to higher ground, public transport shut down and the stock market suffered its first weather-related closure in 27 years. About 50 million people from the Mid-Atlantic to Canada were in the path of the nearly 1,000-mile-wide (1,600-km-wide) storm, which forecasters said could be the largest to hit the mainland...
08:25 PM, Oct 29, 2012
New York: It's almost an apocalyptic feeling here in New York - with streets largely deserted, the essential transport services now shut down. The subway and buses have been shut down, people have been warned to stay out of parks, and to hunker down indoors, as Hurricane Sandy approaches, about to clash with two stormfronts, making this officially the mother of all frankenstorms. It's got some people remembering the panic...
07:34 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Famous comedian Jaspal Bhatti died in a road accident near Jalandhar on Thursday. Bhatti was going to Nakodar from Bhatinda for the promotion of his upcoming film 'Power Cut'. The accident happened on Shahkot area of Jalandhar. Bhatti's car rammed into a roadside tree. Bhatti's son and actress Surilie Gautam of his upcoming film were injured in the mishap. Both the injured have been admitted to the hospital. Jaspal Bhatti...
11:50 AM, Oct 25, 2012
New Delhi: The cyberspace is abuzz with people commenting on the rumoured romance between Bilawal Bhutto, the 24-year-old scion of Pakistan's 'first' family, and Pakistan's foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, the 35-year-old mother of two who is married to Firoze Gulzar, one of Pakistan's most influential businessmen. While someone from Pakistan on Twitter suggested that if Hina actually got married to Bilawal, "here is what her name would be- Hina...
10:35 AM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday threw an open challenge to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking that he resign first before accepting the resignations of TMC ministers on Friday. TMC member Kunal Ghosh tweeted saying party chief Mamata Banerjee was that "tigress of India" who had proven that she was with the people of the country and would remain so. She is the "one and only voice of...
10:33 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: You can now upload images directly from your mobile browser to Twitter. The social networking site has begun integrating image uploads into its mobile website. This new feature will allow users accessing Twitter via its mobile website to attach images to their tweets. Clicking on the image button allows you to capture an image using the camera or select a file from your gallery. It seems the new...
03:39 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Hours before his return to international cricket, the cancer survivor tweeted his emotions and thanked supporters. ...
01:22 PM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Sherlyn Chopra is hopping mad at the Indian media for calling her 'sleaze queen', 'down market' and 'cheap' after she posted on Twitter pornographic images of a woman, thought to be her, masterbating with a cucumber. "Huge thanks to the media and others for titles such as 'wanna be', 'the queen of sleaze', 'down market', 'cheap', 'desperado', 'shameless', etc. Out of my 16 or 17 tweets which I...
10:41 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Washington: You can use Twitter postings to spot whether someone is a psychopath, especially if he frequently uses words such as 'die', 'kill' and 'bury', a new research has claimed. Researchers from the Florida Atlantic University conducted a study with the London-based Online Privacy Foundation that showed how users' word choices can indicate personality traits, the Sun Sentinel reported. Somebody who swears too much online or uses words like "die,"...
04:42 PM, Aug 27, 2012
London: Reuters News said one of its Twitter accounts was hacked on Sunday and false tweets were posted, mainly related to the current armed struggle in Syria. "Earlier today @ReutersTech was hacked and changed to @ReutersME," said a spokesperson for Reuters, which is owned by Thomson Reuters CorpTO>. "The account has been suspended and is currently under investigation." The incident follows the company's disclosure that the blogging platform of the...
10:32 AM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: The last episode of Aamir Khan's TV show shifted the audience's focus to the problem of alcohol abuse and how it is causing problems in daily lives of the common people. A senior journalist Vijay Simha narrated how he came out of his grief and decided not to take alcohol again in his life. Similarly, the show featured other people who left their habit of consuming alcohol. The...
10:25 AM, Jul 08, 2012
