Top India sports stars were among thousands of Twitter account users to lose their verified status effective Thursday, April 20, as Elon Musk made good on his promise to remove the blue check mark from ‘legacy’ accounts.
May 31, 2019 20:05
MUMBAI: The National Basketball Association has announced that the NBA Finals 2019 will be livestreamed for fans in India for the first time on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
May 18, 2019 17:05
MUMBAI: Indian captain Virat Kohli has become the first cricketer to have more than 100 million followers across various social media platforms.
Kohli has 37 million followers on Facebook, 33.5 million followers on Instagram and 29.4 million followers on Twitter.
With regards to Twitter, it is again Tendulkar who is "the next best", with 28 million followers.
May 14, 2019 15:05
MUMBAI: After 60 matches of Indian Premier League 2019, which culminated with the nail-biting victory of Mumbai Indians over Chennai Super Kings for their fourth IPL title, Twitter declared Tuesday that the tournament set new benchmarks on the social media platform.
This year, Twitter saw a record-breaking 27 million tweets, a 44% increase over 2018’s IPL-related tweets.
May 03, 2019 16:05
MUMBAI: A postgraduate study investigating tweets by gambling operators revealed they only promote safe gambling messages, on average, just over once every 100 tweets.
Postgraduate researcher Scott Houghton and colleagues from Northumbria University presented their findings Thursday at a conference in Harrogate, UK.
May 03, 2019 15:05
MUMBAI: Andre Russell (@Russell12A) and Hardik Pandya (@hardikpandya7) were the stars of week 5 of the ongoing IPL 2019.
Apr 30, 2019 17:04
NEW YORK: Twitter is expanding its lineup of live and on demand programming across entertainment, news, sports and gaming with a new round of brand partnerships.
The partnerships were announced Monday at the Digital Content NewFronts here.
Apr 24, 2019 17:04
MUMBAI: When RCB took on CSK in week 4 of the IPL 2019, it saw two of Indian cricket’s biggest faces go head to head: MS Dhoni (@msdhoni) and Virat Kohli (@imVkohli). The match saw a Kohli hundred and a Dhoni masterclass. The result was an incredible game of cricket, and fans going crazy on Twitter.
Apr 23, 2019 17:04
MUMBAI: Aneesh Madani, former head of Sports Partnerships for Asia Pacific at Twitter, has joined the International Olympic Committee as head of Digital Partnerships, Global.
In his new role, Madani will be based out of the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Apr 23, 2019 11:04
MUMBAI: Twitter India on Monday appointed Manish Maheshwari, former CEO of Network18 Digital, as managing director for the country operations.
Maheshwari's appointment fills a position vacant since country director Taranjeet Singh quit nearly eight months ago to head Zee Network's OTT platform Zee5.
Apr 13, 2019 14:04
DUBAI: At its first TwitterFronts event for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, microblogging platform Twitter unveiled over 16 premium video content collaborations across sports, entertainment and news.