Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) was apparently back up on Wednesday after a worldwide outage hit the microblogging platform’s website and its dashboard management platform TweetDeck, affecting thousands of users. Several users were currently able to log in to access Twitter and TweetDeck. The company did not release an official statement on the status update of the […]
Trump in new Twitter attack on London’s mayor
US President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Saturday on London Mayor Sadiq Khan, backing a right-wing British columnist who has been widely accused of Islamophobia and once called migrants “cockroaches.” Trump attached his latest denunciation of the mayor to a retweet by Katie Hopkins about crime in “Khan’s Londonistan” — using a term widely […]
Slips of the tongue
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” All people commit sins and make mistakes. God forgives them, and people are acting in a godlike (divine) way when they forgive.” When the young Alexander Pope famously wrote these lines in a didactic poem entitled An Essay on Criticism as far back as the 17th century, he […]
Maryam criticises Imran for defaming his own country in Iran
Prime Minister Imran Khan was criticised by Maryam Nawaz for declaring that Pakistan’s soil was used for attacks in the neighboring country. PM admitted this during his visit to Iran. Maryam tweeted, “Vilifying & defaming your own country on foreign soil, sitting with foreign leaders, does not find a parallel in the national and diplomatic […]
Incompetence worse than corruption: Atif Mian
Pakistani-American economist Atif Mian put up a twitter poll on Wednesday that proved to be quite a discussion among the Twitterati. He asked if corruption is the bigger problem or incompetence, in the developing countries, Atif questions, “which one is the bigger constraint in the developing countries,” the poll had both ‘corruption of the elite’ […]
Twitter limits bulk following to thwart spammers
Twitter on Monday trimmed the number of accounts that a user can follow in a single day in an effort to fight spam at the micro-blogging platform. The total number of accounts that can be added to a user’s list was cut to 400 from 1,000, the San Francisco-based internet firm said. “Follow, unfollow, follow, […]
Pakistan minister brands US envoy ‘little pygmy’ in Twitter row
A Pakistani minister has branded the US ambassador to Kabul a “little pygmy” in a high-level diplomatic Twitter row that erupted over ongoing peace talks between Washington and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The furore underscores the delicate balance of regional tensions as the US steps up a push to find a way out of Afghanistan, […]
‘Are you still in love with Imran Khan?’ – Twitterati to Jemima
Jemima Goldsmith, a film producer and journalist was seen getting in the middle of UKs Brexit deal. The former wife of Prime Minister Imran Khan was seen tweeting her stance about the Brexit deal, when a curious nosey troll inquired through responding to the Brexit tweet, if Jemima is still in love with Imran Khan. […]
Trump accuses Facebook, Twitter, Google of Democrat bias
US President Donald Trump took a swipe on Tuesday at America’s tech giants, accusing them of having a liberal bias, and claiming Twitter was making it more difficult to follow his account. “Facebook, Twitter and Google are so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous!” Trump tweeted. “Twitter, in fact, has made it much more […]
Doing a U-turn to reach one’s objective is hallmark of great leadership: PM Khan
ISLAMABAD: After getting into hot water for his U-turn remarks, Prime Minister Imran Khan reaffirmed his statement by saying that doing a U-turn to reach one’s objective is the hallmark of great leadership just as lying to save ill-gotten wealth is the hallmark of crooks. The primer took to famous social blogging site Twitter and […]