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Twitter
agrees to block six fake PMO accounts
Thursday August 23, 2012 06:04:16 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Social
networking site Twitter has agreed to cooperate with the
government in blocking six fake accounts "misrepresenting" Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, officials said Thursday.
Twitter has around 16 million accounts in India.
"Twitter has agreed to cooperate in blocking the six fake PM
accounts. and we welcome their cooperation. They responded to our
complaint, saying we need to follow an internal channel to lodge a
formal complaint in the matter," the prime minister's media
adviser Pankaj Pachauri told IANS.
"We have forwarded their communication to the ministry of
communications and IT for necessary action," Pachauri said.
"We had earlier complained through email to the six fake twitter
accounts individually," he said.
According to Pachauri, a person behind one of the accounts
PM0India wrote back saying he had changed the name of his twitter
account to thehinduexpress, which proved that some people were up
to some mischief on the social networking site.
The official said the fact that the government sought just six
accounts out of 16 million to be blocked for misrepresenting the
prime minister shows New Delhi did not favour a blanket ban on
Twitter.
Some of the fake Twitter accounts misrepresenting the prime
minister included @Indian_pm, @PMOIndiaa, @dryumyumsingh,
@PM0India.
Officials said the source of these fake accounts could be outside
the country.
Opening the prime minister's Twitter account was Pachauri's
brainchild to reach out to the community through new media after
he joined the PMO early this year.
Over the past few days, the government has also blocked around 300
websites which it blamed for spreading rumours that sparked an
exodus of the northeast people from Bangalore and Chennai.
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