Outgoing Akhilesh govt wipes clean Twitter posts

March 15, 2017 09:09

As the dust settles in Uttar Pradesh after the Samajwadi Partys crushing defeat at the hands of BJP in the assembly elections, Tuesday morning saw an unusual activity from the UP government IT cell. All activities from UP government social media handles suddenly disappeared from their timelines.

However, later in the day, the official government Twitter handle @CMOfficeUP put out a clarification saying that the tweets were archived, not deleted.

All the tweets from the Uttar Pradesh government Twitter handle @CMOfficeUP have been deleted. The handle has also unfollowed many accounts. The other Twitter handle of CM Office, Uttar Pradesh, registered itself to an online service called DeleteAllTweets.com to delete all the tweets.

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