I’ve Said Too Much: Mumbai government tries to crack down on Twitter updates?
November 27th, 2008Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick
(J.co.uk update)Read Amy Gahran's skepticism about this particular rumour on her blog. It seems unlikely, but as blogged and recorded by @Lloydshep (follow link at end): "The awful stuff coming out of Mumbai is one thing, but here’s another: the Indian government asking for live Twitter updates to cease to protect their operations. For all sorts of reasons, this seems to be significant." Full story...
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November 27th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
[...] Lloyd Shepherd blogged that Mumbai ‘tweets’ appear to have been restrained, seemingly by the Indian authorities. [...]