I'm going to hazard a guess that the author is a supporter of the BJP/Narendra Modi and that Twitter is not being as accommodating as Facebook has been in accommodating that party's political objectives.
In political communications and propaganda (from the Italian word for propagation, eg of an idea), facts are not as important as the feeling that is communicated to the reader. You see this a lot in tabloid media where headline writers will tell readers what emotion they can expect to get from a story, eg 'Outrageous: minor annoyance is symbolic of general grievance.' It's worth bearing in mind that hormones are like drugs and people can get addicted to being angry or depressed just as much as they to feeling good, so people often read the news selectively in order to get a fix of their preferred emotion.
Another thing that's important in political communication is posture. Again this need not be based on facts, but is about framing the discussion a certain way. The best way I have found to explain this is to suggest you watch scenes from an unfamiliar movie in a different language with no subtitles, or in your own language with the sound turned down. You don't need to know the plot or the content of the film in order to get a sense of which characters are in adversarial or cooperative relationships, or which character has 'won' a scene.
Narrative filmmaking is full of little tricks, from camera angle to lighting to framing to music to help you feel your way through a scene without too much intellectualization. It's much more work to watch a film with no music, or to maintain focus on the story just by reading a script or listening to actors reading it at a table, unless you are already a fan of the film.
This article is an example of the same thing. Most HN readers are in the west and are not familiar with the political and cultural mores in India. But many of those tropes will be immediately and even unconsciously familiar to the target audience, and the writer's goal is to use those to present Twitter in a certain role that will incrementally reshape public perceptions.
Of course, I am not sufficiently knowledgeable about Indian politics to understand all the factors in play, but I suggest that they're not all that different from this extant in the American political context of recent years.
In political communications and propaganda (from the Italian word for propagation, eg of an idea), facts are not as important as the feeling that is communicated to the reader. You see this a lot in tabloid media where headline writers will tell readers what emotion they can expect to get from a story, eg 'Outrageous: minor annoyance is symbolic of general grievance.' It's worth bearing in mind that hormones are like drugs and people can get addicted to being angry or depressed just as much as they to feeling good, so people often read the news selectively in order to get a fix of their preferred emotion.
Another thing that's important in political communication is posture. Again this need not be based on facts, but is about framing the discussion a certain way. The best way I have found to explain this is to suggest you watch scenes from an unfamiliar movie in a different language with no subtitles, or in your own language with the sound turned down. You don't need to know the plot or the content of the film in order to get a sense of which characters are in adversarial or cooperative relationships, or which character has 'won' a scene.
Narrative filmmaking is full of little tricks, from camera angle to lighting to framing to music to help you feel your way through a scene without too much intellectualization. It's much more work to watch a film with no music, or to maintain focus on the story just by reading a script or listening to actors reading it at a table, unless you are already a fan of the film.
This article is an example of the same thing. Most HN readers are in the west and are not familiar with the political and cultural mores in India. But many of those tropes will be immediately and even unconsciously familiar to the target audience, and the writer's goal is to use those to present Twitter in a certain role that will incrementally reshape public perceptions.
Of course, I am not sufficiently knowledgeable about Indian politics to understand all the factors in play, but I suggest that they're not all that different from this extant in the American political context of recent years.