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More than the edit button, Elon Musk needs reset button for Twitter India

Nearly all its revenue in the country was received as payments from a Singapore-based subsidiary: Just a few lakh rupees are shown as earned in India.

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Sai Manish New Delhi
Elon Musk is elated to land a deal to acquire Twitter. You can see it in his tweets. In one, he likened Twitter to “the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated”.

Musk might also want to debate the future of Twitter in India--its third largest market by the number of users--not just as a social media platform but also as a corporate entity.

To look at Twitter’s corporate presence in India, one needs to navigate through a small maze. The social media platform operates in India through an entity named Twitter Communications India.

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