Twitter removes Home Minister Amit Shah's DP, reinstates

Twitter has restored the profile photo of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's account, earlier it had removed the photo over claims in response to a report from a copyright holder.

New Delhi:Micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday night removed the Display Picture (DP) of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. It, however, reinstated the picture after some time.

It turned out that Twitter took the action after someone claimed copyright on the image. However, as soon as the questions arose on the action, Twitter reinstated the same picture.

Twitter removes Home Minister Amit Shah's DP, reinstates

Twitter on Friday stated that they had temporarily locked Union Home Minister Amit Shah's account "due to an inadvertent error" on November 12 and clarified that the decision was reversed immediately and the account restored.

However, after a while, they restored the account. "Due to an inadvertent error, we temporarily locked this account under our global copyright policies. This decision was reversed immediately and the account is fully functional," said a spokesperson of the microblogging site.

The Twitteratti reacted on the action that who can claim on the picture of the Home Minister?

In fact, on Thursday night, a message was displayed on the DP of Shah saying 'Media not displayed'. Twitter stated in the message that the picture has been removed after someone claimed copyright on it.

Shah is very popular on social media. He is the second leader in the country after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in terms of highest followers on Twitter. He has 23.6 million followers. The Home Minister follows only 296 people.

(IANS)