Twitter Samvad Launched, Making Digital India A Dialogue

NEW DELHI: Social media platform Twitter on Tuesday launched Twitter Samvad in collaboration with the Indian government so as to allow people to receive tweets as SMSes from government offices, including the Prime Minister's Office.

The service was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his meeting here with Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo, who told media persons after the meeting that "based on Indian technological innovation, Twitter Samvad is dedicated and specially built for the largest democracy of the world".

"As part of the Prime Minister's Digital India initiative, this tweet-powered service enables citizens to be the first to know about the government's actions by receiving political content in real-time on their mobile devices anywhere in the country."

The event comes on the day the Supreme Court upheld the social media users' freedom of expression as guaranteed by the constitution, by striking down section 66 A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
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