![]() ![]() Under the amendment to India’s IT rules that went into effect in 2021, Twitter had little to no room to individually challenge the takedown orders.įriday’s verdict follows Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey alleging earlier this month that India regularly issued requests for the social media giant to remove certain posts and accounts, often accompanying these demands with threats of legal repercussions in cases of noncompliance. Twitter partially complied with the requests but sought to fight many of the legal orders. Twitter had filed the lawsuit following a rough year and a half in India, a period during which it had been asked to take down hundreds of accounts and tweets, many of which critics argued were objectionable only because they denounced the Indian government’s policies and Modi. His lawyers said that the lawsuit exposed risks to Twitter’s third-largest market. Musk, who appears to have a much cozier relationship with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, last year cited Twitter’s litigation against New Delhi as one of the many reasons he wanted to get out of the acquisition deal. Some block orders “pertain to political content that is posted by official handles of political parties,” Twitter added in the lawsuit. Twitter filed the plea against the Indian government in Karnataka High Court in Bengaluru last year, before the takeover by Musk was complete, alleging that New Delhi had abused its power by ordering it to “arbitrarily and disproportionately” remove several tweets from its platform. You are not a farmer but a billon dollar company.” “So you have not given any reason why you delayed compliance, more than a year of delay… then all of sudden you comply and approach the Court. That also did not deter your client,” a single judge bench said in scathing verdict Friday. Punishment for non-compliance is 7 years imprisonment and unlimited fine. “Your client (Twitter) was given notices and your client did not comply. The court observed that despite being issued notices, Twitter did not provide reasons for why it delayed compliance to the amendments to India’s IT rules. The Karnataka High Court dismissed the high-profile plea, filed last year, and also fined the Elon Musk-owned firm 5 million Indian rupees ($61,000). Music publishers sued Twitter for failing to stop the usage of unlicensed music on the platform - in the case filing, the plaintiffs made a note of the video expansion feature.An Indian court has dismissed Twitter’s lawsuit against the federal government that sought to challenge New Delhi’s block orders on tweets and accounts. Last month, it increased this limit to two-hour videos. Last December, Twitter started to allow paid users to upload 60-minute videos in 1080p. And for that step, it faced pushback from users.Īpart from increasing the character limit for tweets, the social media company has also allowed Twitter Blue subscribers to upload longer videos. Under previous management, the company made one change - going from to 140 characters to 280 characters - in the last decade. At that time, the company also introduced support for text formatting features like bold and italic. ![]() In February, Twitter increased the limit to 4,000 characters, later extending it to 10,000 characters in April. ![]() Enjoy longer NoteTweet and happy tweeting! □ We have increased NoteTweet (aka longform Tweet) limit from 10k to 25k characters. ![]()
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