Twitter locks out Ravi Shankar Prasad, Shashi Tharoor from their accounts, triggers row | All that happened

A major controversy ensued after Twitter on Friday denied Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor access to their accounts, citing copyrights violation as the reason.

Microblogging platform Twitter on Friday ended up mired in a controversy after it "locked out" a Union minister and an MP and denied them access to their accounts, citing US Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) violation as the reason. Friends! Something highly peculiar happened today. Twitter denied access to my account for almost an hour on the alleged ground that there was a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA and subsequently they allowed me to access the account. pic.twitter.com/WspPmor9Su No matter what any platform does they will have to abide by the new IT Rules fully and there shall be no compromise on that. And @Twitter locked me out again because to explain the problem, the first tweet in this thread included the offending copyrighted video. Locking is a foolish response to a DCMA notice; disabling the video (which they've now done) should be enough. @Twitter has a lot to learn. The first to be denied access to his account was Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who claimed that Twitter locked him out of his account for almost an hour on the alleged grounds that there was a "violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the USA"