In a major goof-up, popular social media platform Twitter today showed Jammu as part of Pakistan and J&K as being in China in its location-tagging service\u2014drawing flak from its own users. (@Twitter, #Twitter, @Siliconeer, #Siliconeer, #IndiansUpset)<\/p>\n
Twitter, which is very popular among politicians, government leaders and others seeking to spread their views, also identified Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) as ‘Azad Kashmir’ province of Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Left red-faced over the faux pas, Twitter’s India office said the problem has been identified and it will be resolved soon.<\/p>\n
The government on its part said the matter will be taken up with the micro-blogging site.<\/p>\n
“I am sure this will be taken up,” External Affairs spokesman Vikas Swarup told reporters.<\/p>\n
While posting a new tweet, Twitter gives an option to the user to tag his or her location, where the micro-blogging site was found to be showing Jammu as being part of Pakistan. Besides, a user seeking to tag Jammu and Kashmir as the location was being shown the option of this place being in ‘People’s Republic of China.’<\/p>\n
The development created a flutter among Twiterrati, a term used for frequent users of this platform, and large number of the users criticized Twitter for the goof up, with some terming it being biased against India.<\/p>\n
Several ministries and departments of the government including the President’s Secretariat and Prime Minister’s Office have been using Twitter to communicate with the people.<\/p>\n
Prominent politicians, cine stars and blue-chip companies of the country have also been using this platform.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, Twitter had shot into prominence in India after a major controversy over former Congress Minister Shashi Tharoor’s “cattle class” tweets, which he had apparently used for economy class air travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a major goof-up, popular social media platform Twitter today showed Jammu as part of Pakistan and J&K as being in China in its location-tagging service\u2014drawing flak from its own users. (@Twitter, #Twitter, @Siliconeer, #Siliconeer, #IndiansUpset) Twitter, which is very popular among politicians, government leaders and others seeking to spread their views, also identified Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir…<\/p>\n