ANI's Twitter account suspended for hours

April 29, 2023 20:28

The Twitter account of India's prominent news agency Asian News International (ANI) remained suspended for about five hours on Saturday.

ANI's news director Smita Prakash tweeted a screenshot of Twitter's email to the agency, informing them that their account 'has been locked'.

'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,' she wrote, tagging Twitter CEO Elon Musk.

The e-mail read, 'Your account @ANI has been locked. In order to create a Twitter account, you must be at least 13 years old. Twitter has determined that you don't meet these age requirements, so your account has been locked and will be removed from Twitter.'

Later in the evening, the account reappeared on the microblogging website.

'ANI's Twitter account appears to be functioning now. Inconvenience regretted for the temporary outage,' the agency tweeted.

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