Twitter Accepts It Barred Ravi Shankar Prasad from Accessing Account, Says Was Responding to Copyright Plaint

Twitter confirmed the claim by Union Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that it had denying access to his account for almost an hour. We can confirm that the Honourable Minister's account access was temporarily restricted due to a DMCA notice only and the referenced Tweet has been withheld, Twitter said. Per our copyright policy, we respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by a copyright owner, a spokesperson said.