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| Gupkar becomes one-way street? | | To save himself from people’s wrath, Omar disables replies on twitter | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 14: National Conference vice-president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister has discovered a novel way to save himself from getting trolled on twitter. He has simply disabled the replies on his account, turning his social media usage into a one way traffic.
Omar’s such an action has led many to believe that he doesn’t want the world to see how badly he is trolled every time he says anything bizarre on twitter. The last time he had the replies section enabled was on September 23 this year. Since then he has disabled it completely and turned it into a one way street.
Pertinently, in May this year, Twitter introduced new conversation controls for tweets on May 21, where users can limit replies to a tweet to people they have tagged in a tweet, or people they follow. This way, if a user doesn’t tag anyone in a tweet, and limits replies to only tagged people, no one will be able to reply to that particular tweet. The company said in a blog post that this feature is just a test, and did not commit to rolling it out widely. This comes a few weeks after the social media company started testing “fleets“, tweets that disappear after a certain amount of time.
Omar sensing the hatred he receives online with scores of users questioning the role his family has played in Kashmir politics, finally pressed the “disable the replies” button. Also, he has kept the direct message option closed for the users.
In May, this year, Omar Abdullah had disabled replies to his tweet which warned Kashmiri Muslims of China’s aggression on Muslims there.
Clearly, Abdullah was sure of the abuse he might face at the hands of the radical Kashmiris and had thus, disabled the responses to his tweet. Twitter has a new feature where accounts can limit who is allowed to respond to their tweet and in the current tweet, Abdullah had limited it to only those who are mentioned in his tweet being able to respond. Since nobody was mentioned in his tweet, it would essentially mean that nobody would be able to tweet a response to him. That the account was deleted after a tweet in which he had disabled responses points to the fact that Abdullah might have decided to quit Twitter to avoid the blowback he may receive for this tweet not only from Kashmiri radicals but also from Pakistanis.
For the past several years Omar Abdullah is quite active on twitter and keeps tweeting on several issues ranging from politics to marketing the new brand of vehicles with his father- Farooq Abdullah. He has 3.2 million followers on twitter and he follows some 493. |
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