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Hyderabad Sunrisers block David Warner on social media

Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Hyderabad Sunrisers have blocked their former player David Warner on the social media platform ‘X’ (formerly Twitter).

Australian opener David Warner has been a part of IPL franchise Hyderabad Sunrisers. On Tuesday, the Sunrisers picked Australian player Travis Head as opener for INR 6.80 crore in the players’ auction.

Meanwhile, David Warner wanted to tag his former franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad while posting on ‘X’ but was unable to do so as the franchise had blocked him.

He shared a screenshot of the franchise’s profile, writing, “I wanted to retweet Sunriser’s post about Travis Head but I was unable to do so because Sunrisers blocked me.”

Warner parted ways with IPL franchise over differences, and their relationship has since soured. Warner was the captain of the Hyderabad team in the 2021 season, however, he was left out of the playing XI and later removed from the captaincy.

When the new season of IPL resumed after the COVID-19 pandemic, Sunrisers Hyderabad did not call him back to their team.

The Australian opener was subsequently repurchased by Delhi Capitals for the 2022 edition, the team Warner started his IPL journey with in 2009.

December 20, 2023
Wikipedia is now working in Pakistan

A two-day-old ban on Wikipedia was reversed by the Pakistani government after outrage on restricting the online encyclopaedia.

The ban was put in place by Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) due to “unlawful” content.

The website is now working in Pakistan.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday ordered the PTA to restore the online encyclopedia with “immediate effect”.

“Blocking the site in its entirety was not a suitable measure to restrict access to some objectionable content,” a statement issued by the PM’s office read.
“The unintended consequences of this blanket ban, therefore, outweigh its benefits,” it added.

PTA blocked Wikipedia in the country last week for not removing sacrilegious content from the website.

February 7, 2023
Instagram fixes bug that locked users out of their accounts

Instagram announced on its Twitter account that an outage that started on Monday morning has been fixed.

Instagram locked users out during the downtime and informed many of them that their accounts will be suspended on October 31, 2022. Due to a bug, numerous accounts with massive followings lost a considerable portion of their followers.

We’ve resolved this bug now – it was causing people in different parts of the world to have issues accessing their accounts and caused a temporary change for some in number of followers. Sorry! ‍ https://t.co/Q1FBOEI97D

— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) October 31, 2022

The majority of reports of the problem appeared to come from iPhone users, with some claiming that their app recently crashed and became unusable prior to an update earlier this morning.

“We’ve resolved this bug now — it was causing people in different parts of the world to have issues accessing their accounts and caused a temporary change for some in number of followers,” Instagram wrote. “Sorry!” The platform first confirmed the issue on Twitter at 10:14 AM ET but didn’t say things were resolved until many hours later at 6 PM ET. Adam Mosseri, who heads up Instagram, also apologized for the outage.

Around the time Instagram acknowledged the problem, reports on Downdetector reached over 7,000, although they have levelled off since then.

Around 10:15 AM ET, a quick glance at Cristiano Ronaldo’s Instagram account revealed that, although it still had 493 million followers the day before, it appeared to have lost 3 million of those. However, the figure has now risen to 493 million. More than a million fewer people were using Instagram’s main account.

November 1, 2022