Twitter begins hiring to comply with India's new IT rules

Twitter Inc's India unit has posted job openings for three new roles and will try to make an offer of employment to resident Indians, as asked by rules, within 8 weeks. It will try to appoint a nodal contact person's job on an interim basis within 2 weeks, the company told the Delhi High Court on Thursday.

Twitter Inc's India unit has appointed an interim chief compliance officer and will soon designate other executives to meet the country's new IT rules, the social media giant said in court on Thursday, amid tensions with the government. The IT rules, which became effective end-May, are aimed at regulating content on social media and making firms act more swiftly on legal requests to remove posts and sharing details on the originators of messages. They also require the appointment of certain new executives.