Twitter’s Public Policy Director for India and South Asia, Mahima Kaul, resigned from her post earlier this month to focus on personal life. She will, however, continue in her role till March end and support the transition.
Monique Meche, Vice President, Twitter Public Policy, informed about the decision and in a statement said Mahima has “decided to step down from her role as Twitter Public Policy Director for India and South Asia to take a well-deserved break”.
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“It's a loss for all of us at Twitter, but after more than five years in the role we respect her desire to focus on the most important people and relationships in her personal life. Mahima will continue in her role till the end of March and will support the transition,” added Meche.
India has millions of users, including politicians, film personalities and sportspersons’, on the microblogging-social networking platform and is the third largest market for Twitter in the world after the US and Japan.
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It may be recalled here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government had earlier this month sent a strongly-worded letter to Twitter for “unilaterally” unblocking around 250 accounts that had been tweeting with an objectionable hashtag over the farmers’ agitation against the three farm laws.