Ex-Twitter India chief clarifies his ‘afterlife’ tweet on Sushant Singh Rajput

Responding to fan outrage over his tweet on Sushant Singh Rajput, former Twitter India head Manish Maheshwari clarified the intent of his publish was to query the ‘chaos and confusion’ across the actor’s Twitter deal with, which has a blue tick regardless of him being no extra.

“The intent of the tweet was to bring out the chaos and confusion surrounding the #BlueTick. I have great respect for @itsSSR. Loved his acting in the #MSDhoni movie,” tweeted Maheshwari on Thursday.

On April 26, the previous Twitter India chief had posted the next tweet, additionally tagging Elon Musk, the world’s second-richest one who purchased the social networking platform in October final 12 months: “Wondering how @itsSSR verified his phone number @elonmusk? Either you are lying or people have figured out a way to carry their phone in afterlife.”

The publish, nonetheless, left the late actor’s followers fuming. “Sir, As a fan of @itsSSR, I request you not to drag Sushant in all these. Your concern is with his blue tick or how verified his phone number? FYI, many more people got back their blue tick, who r no more & I hope U know how all users get their number verified while signing in,” mentioned a person.

“Trying to stay relevant using Sushant’s name! Pathetic,” mentioned one other.

Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, was discovered useless in his condominium in Mumbai in June 2020.

What was the context of Maheshwari’s tweet?

On April 11, Musk issued a ‘deadline,’ saying that from April 20, the microblogging web site will start eradicating blue checkmarks for accounts that don’t subscribe to Twitter Blue, a paid month-to-month subscription service ($7.99), which grants blue ticks, additionally referred to as verification badges, to customers. Accordingly, on April 20, these have been faraway from handles of non-subscribers.

Two days later, nonetheless, the badges have been reinstated for a number of customers, all of whom mentioned it was completed with out their data and regardless of them not paying for it. It was noticed that the checkmarks have been again for accounts with no less than 1 million followers; apparently, these bought reinstated for some deceased individuals (together with Rajput) as properly.

At the time of his premature demise, the Bollywood star had 2.4 million followers.

It will not be but identified, in the meantime, how the badges have been restored with out subscription, together with for deceased folks.