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Why #Bihar is trending in Pakistan

November 8, 2015

New Delhi: Even as the Bihar assembly poll results trickled in on Sunday, the hashtag #Bihar began trending in Pakistan with Twitterati there closely following the latest updates. Such interest in a local Indian election was unprecedented. So what aroused their curiosity in this regard?

A few days ago BJP President Amit Shah had made a controversial remark saying that if his party lost Bihar polls Pakistan would celebrate by bursting crackers. Shah was thereafter accused of attempting to polarize Bihar along religious lines.

Here’s a look at some of the interesting tweets by Pakistanis on Sunday:

Why #Pakistan is celebrating victory of #MGB in #Bihar? https://t.co/6PoiSRmdzi

— Yashasvi (@rsyashasvi) November 8, 2015

I hear the firecrackers loud and clear but they seem to be bursting in #Bihar not Pakistan.

— Murtaza Solangi (@murtazasolangi) November 8, 2015

#Bihar – the top trend in Pakistan. Hardly anyone knew about these polls until Amit Shah said there’ll be fireworks in Pakistan if BJP loses

— Ashar Jawad (@AsharJawad) November 8, 2015

Seditios much, crackers going off in Bihar. It was supposed to be in Pakistan. #Bihar — Mir Burhan (@burhanspeaks) November 8, 2015

Ruling #BJP has conceded defeat in #Bihar. Some in Pakistan need to learn a bit from India on accepting electoral verdicts&not cry ‘rigging’

— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) November 8, 2015

Pakistan trends at 14:53: #Bihar, #NawazSlaveOfIMF, #LetsRepeatHistory, #WelcomeBackMrSpeaker, #PAKvNEP, Moin Khan, Shane Warne — Trends in Pakistan (@PakTrendStats) November 8, 2015

#Bihar is trending in Pakistan. Happy that our people are closely watching the elections there.

— Gen Hameed Gul (@GenHameedGul) November 8, 2015

People of #Bihar took revenge from #BJP by vote only due to independent election commission, this is what IK is struggling for in #Pakistan — Hooriaوڈی ڈاکٹرصاحبہ (@hooriaKhaan) November 8, 2015

Apna ilaqa #bihar trending top on twitter in Pakistan just coz they voted anti-Modi !!

— Shaheer Adil Azeem (@ShaheerAzeem) November 8, 2015

Crackers? Pakistan would care if any of this was about cricket. Otherwise a #Bihar loss or win for BJP is more imp to India than anyone else — SenatorSherryRehman (@sherryrehman) November 8, 2015

Crackers? Pakistan? What’s the joke, guys – please to share! #Bihar #BiharElections

— Yusra Askari (@YusraSAskari) November 8, 2015

A Bug in Twitter Exposes Private Tweets of Some Android Users

Twitter is also facing an investigation by privacy regulators in Ireland over data collection in its link-shortening system

NewsGram Desk

January 18, 2019

A bug in Twitter exposed private tweets of some Android users for over five years when they made changes in their settings, like changing the email address linked to their accounts.

According to the micro-blogging platform, the bug (now fixed) disabled the “Protect your Tweets” setting if certain account changes were made on Android devices.

The bug didn’t affect people using Twitter on iOS or desktop, Twitter said on Thursday.

“You may have been impacted by this issue if you had protected Tweets turned on in your settings, used Twitter for Android, and made certain changes to account settings such as changing the email address associated with your account between November 3, 2014, and January 14, 2019.

“People on iOS or the web were not impacted. We fixed the issue on January 14, and we’ll provide updates if other important information becomes available,” Twitter said on its Help page.

The company said it has informed those who were affected by the bug, and has turned “Protect your Tweets” back on for them if it was disabled.

Twitter CEO — Twitter on a smartphone device. VOA

“We encourage you to review your privacy settings to ensure that your aProtect your Tweets’ setting reflects your preferences,” said Twitter, adding it is sorry that this happened.

In May last year, Twitter asked its 336 million users to change their passwords after it discovered a bug that stored passwords in plain text in an internal system.

Twitter said it found no sign that hackers accessed the exposed data but advised users that they should enter a new password on all services where their current password has been used.

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Another bug in Twitter’s platform for third-party app developers exposed some Direct Messages (DMs) from nearly 3 million users to outsiders, the micro-blogging platform admitted in September.

The bug ran from May 2017 and after discovering it, Twitter said it fixed the bug to prevent data from being unintentionally sent to the incorrect developer.

Twitter is also facing an investigation by privacy regulators in Ireland over data collection in its link-shortening system. (IANS)