SunstarTV Bureau: Popular social site Twitter has withdrawn the blue verified badge from the personal Twitter handle of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, said Office of Vice President on Saturday morning.
However, the official account of the vice president of India, @VPSecratariat, which is run by the vice President’s Secretariat, still has a blue tick next to it.
“Twitter has withdrawn blue verified badge from personal handle of vice president of India, M Venkaiah Naidu,” news agency ANI quoted the vice president’s Office as saying.
Naidu’s personal account, the last tweet from which was posted on July 23 last year, has 1.3 million followers. The Vice President of India’s account, on the other hand, has more than 9,31,000 followers.
Saturday’s development comes at a time when Twitter is already engaged in a faceoff with the central government over the new IT Rules, announced by the Centre on February 25 this year.
