Twitter has responded to the Union home ministry's dictat to block all pages saying it is not possible due to technical reasons. The MHA has told to the IT ministry to serve an ultimatum to social networking site Twitter if it does not block webpages which continue to host morphed and inflammatory contents.

Union home secretary R.K. Singh has asked the department of electronics and information technology (Deit) to take punitive action against erring sites if they refuse to cooperate and comply with the government orders.

Nearly 30 webpages on Twitter are said to be hosting such morphed and inflammatory content still despite the government order. Singh has told Deit to take appropriate action if the offending webpages are not blocked immediately.'