Ten Days After Blocking Him For Quoting A Quranic Verse, Twitter Restores Account Of Dr Anand Ranganathan

Ten days after blocking the account of noted author and scientist Dr Anand Ranganathan, microblogging platform Twitter restored his account and has apologised to him.

Following the tweet, Twitter blocked Dr Ranganathan's account claiming that his quoting of the verse was 'hateful and violated their rules'.

Refusing to delete the tweet in order to restore his account, Dr Ranganathan appealed against the Twitter decision to censor him.

On Saturday (22 August), ten days after his account was banned, Dr Anand Ranganathan inform that Twitter has reversed its decision and has apologised to him.

"Ten days after claiming my quoting a verse was hateful and violated their rules, Twitter has apologised and restored my account. The tweet stays," Dr Ranganathan tweeted.