The conflict between the media sector and Twitter is increasing. The microblogging platform owned by Elon Musk has removed the official Twitter account of ANI. Today this big action has been taken on the account of India's leading news agency. Even before this, Twitter had taken action on BBC's account. The company had blocked the Twitter account of BBC Punjabi on the demand of the government. However, the case of ANI is a bit different. Twitter has given an interesting reason behind deleting the official account of ANI.
ANI editor Smita Prakash has also tweeted in this matter. Elon Musk's company has also sent an email to ANI to remove the account. Smita has shared the screenshot of this email on Twitter. Let us know what is the reason mentioned in the email sent by Twitter.
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. @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/sm8e765zr4
That's why ANI's account was removed
In an email sent to ANI, Twitter said that ANI's account violates its policy. That's why the company has locked the official account. Twitter said that it is necessary to be at least 13 years old to create a Twitter account. The microblogging platform said that the age requirement has not been taken care of in ANI's account.
That's why the company has locked ANI's account and removed it from Twitter. Smita told that there were 76 lakh followers on ANI's account.
Request to restore account
Smita Prakash has also requested Twitter to restore ANI's account. He said that we (ANI) are not less than 13 years old. Smita told that Twitter first removed the gold checkmark of ANI and changed it to blue tick. Now the account itself has been deleted.
Attention @TwitterSupport @TwitterIndia can you restore the ANI handle please. We are not under 13years of age! https://t.co/50ZJShiZRs
ANI is over 50 years old
It has been more than 50 years since ANI was established. The media company claims that it has more than 100 bureaus in India. On the other hand, recently it was seen that Twitter owner Elon Musk is after the media company around the world. First he removed the blue tick of The New York Times. After this, government media was written on the Twitter label of many news companies including BBC.
Media houses strongly opposed this move. However, Twitter later removed all the controversial labels.
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