You asked so I did it. I spent 30 min on this new Koo app. The app is leaking of the personal data of his users: email, dob, name, marital status, gender, ...
It takes several thousand hours of engineering to get many things right. So not a bit surprised that this happened. We are basically in a zone where Atma-whatever means getting more and more junk, and chest thumping them as doing great things.
Numbers can be verified using the following links:
1. Before protecting account: https://t.co/TmHBX7bzQe (16,937)
2. Latest archive: https://t.co/nuaYcrNP78 (16,727)
It is 2020 and Twitter is still not concerned about misinformation on their platform. Misinformation that is irreversibly damaging the social fabric of many countries is at the bottom of Twitter's priority list.
[yes this useless change highlighted in the tweet below works]
THREAD
@IndiainHamburg Dear Cgi, this email has been circulated around, asking people to compile a list 'with names and address' of *sikh diaspora* residing in Germany for onward transmission. (1/n)
I love how the WHOLE WORLD has its Twitter retweet settings changed just because the US has an election coming up. Do you know what Twitter did during the 2019 Indian elections, the largest in the world? Zilch.
We have so totally normalised the erasure of lines between ruling party and govt that its totally par for the course for a Finance Minister to make a political promise of free vaccines, and the IT cell chief to 'break' the news of Central policy on vaccine distribution.